The Opium Wars, The Gold Rush and the Formation of Global Capitalism
Mae Ngai is the author of The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics.
Letters and Politics
10:00 AM Pacific Time: Monday - Thursday
Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
The Biblical Apocalypse & Its Real World Consequences
Guest: Bart D. Ehrman is a leading authority on the New Testament and the history of early Christianity. He is a Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End.
A History of Settler Colonialism
Guest: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a renown scholar of indigenous and radical history and author of the award winning book An Indigenous People’s History of the United States. Her latest book is called Not A Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion.
Guest: Phyllis Bennis is an expert on the Middle East, she directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. She’s a senior advisor to Jewish Voice for Peace and author of several books including her latest, Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer. Phyllis Bennis’ latest writings: Foreign Policy in Focus Some Facts … Continued
Guest: James Risen is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. Throughout his career, Risen’s explosive investigative reporting has triggered a series of political firestorms. Among his best-selling books are State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration; Pay Any Price: Greed, Power and Endless War; and his latest, The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, … Continued
Guest: Ilan Pappe is the Director of European Center of Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter. He has published many books on the Middle East and on the Palestine Question, including The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, The Modern Middle East, Ten Myths about Israel, and A History of Modern Palestine.
KPFA’s host Philip Maldari talks to John Nichols, national affairs correspondent for The Nation magazine about the latest in Congress and Trump’s conspiracies. John Nichols is also the author of several books including his latest, co-written with Senator Bernie Sanders, is It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism. His writing can be found at the Nation. … Continued
Guest: Dr. Penny Rosenwasser is a white queer Ashkenazi Jewish educator and activist. She is the author most recently of the award-winning book “Hope into Practice: Jewish Women Choosing Justice Despite Our Fears.” She co-teaches a class on Antisemitism / Anti-Arabism with a Palestinian colleague at City College of San Francisco. She is a founding board member of Jewish Voice … Continued
Guest: Joel Beinin is Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University. He is the author or the editor of several books including Was the Red Flag Flying There? Marxist Politics and the Arab-Israeli Conflict in Egypt and Israel 1948-1965; The independent left in Israel, 1967-1993: Essays … Continued
Guest: Timothy Brennan is the author of several books, including At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now; Borrowed Light: Vico, Hegel, and the Colonies; and Salman Rushdie and the Third World: Myths of the Nation, and his latest, Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said. Professor Brennan teaches in the humanities at the University of Minnesota.