Kyle Harper – Viruses and Civilization
The History of Civilization, Science, and the Coronavirus. History can teach us about the causes of the COVID-19 pandemic and its possible consequences. Kyle Harper is a professor of classics and...
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Peter Linebaugh on Thomas Paine
Peter Linebaugh, best known for tracing the history of the commons and of commoning practices, calls Thomas Paine “a planetary revolutionary.” He has found in Paine’s lesser-known works radical...
View ArticleZachary Carter on John Maynard Keynes
The Life and Ideas of John Maynard Keynes Zachary D. Carter is a senior reporter at HuffPost, where he covers Congress, the White House, and economic policy. He is the author of the book The Price of...
View ArticleRichard Walker on The Dark Side of Tech
The Dark Shadow of Tech on the S.F. Bay Area. Richard A. Walker is professor emeritus of geography at the University of California, Berkeley where he taught from 1975 to 2012. He has written on a...
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Rebecca Solnit
Hope in the Dark, Untold Stories, Wild Possibilities When the first edition of Hope in the Dark was published in mid-2004 it gained an instant audience among serious students and progressives. This...
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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment. The U.S. loves guns. From Daniel Boone and Jesse James to the NRA and Seal Team 6, gun culture has colored the lore, shaped the law, and protected...
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Dahr Jamail + Antonia Juhasz
The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption Dahr Jamail has journeyed along many of the geographical front lines of our environmental crisis, from Alaska to...
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Blair Imani
MAKING OUR WAY HOME: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream Over the course of six decades an unprecedented wave of Black Americans left the south and spread across the nation in search of a...
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Chris Carlsson – Hidden San Francisco
Excavating alternative and radical histories of San Francisco is Chris Carlsson’s specialty. He talks about the city’s role in the Underground Railroad; the enslavement of Native Americans; the 1966...
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David Cay Johnston
What Donald Trump Is Doing to You The culmination of 30 years of reporting on Donald Trump, The Making of Donald Trump is the recent New York Times bestselling book by Pulitzer Prize-winning...
View ArticleRick Perlstein: The Invisible Bridge
Rick Perlstein, who has devoted four sweeping books to chronicling the rise of the right in American politics. The first, Before The Storm, covers Barry Goldwater, the insurgent Republican primary...
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Rick Perlstein – Reaganland
Historian Rick Perlstein is the author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, Nixoland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, The Invisible...
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Jason Stanley on Fascism
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of several books including his latest How Fascism Works:...
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Greg Palast – Special Elections Bulletin
A special edition of Flashpoints, Elections Crime Bulletin featuring Greg Palast, author of How Trump Stole 2020, Reverand Lennox Yearwood, the President & Founder of Hip Hop Caucus and also Ralph...
View ArticleAlex Alonso – History of Gangs in the LAPD
Hidden In Plain Sight: White Supremacy In Law Enforcement. Professor Alex Alonso about racist gangs residing within the Los Angeles police department. We begin with remarks from Compton’s Mayor Aja...
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Cornel West
As racial tension again flares across the country, Dr. Cornel West provides a clear portrait of King as a radical visionary. While King is currently recognized as a major leader in America’s civil...
View ArticleRichard Wolff – Understanding Socialism
Understanding Socialism from a KPFA event on February 28, 2020, Economist Richard Wolff tackles the taboos and unveils the often hidden histories of socialism, but most importantly it offers a way...
View ArticlePastor Mike McBride
The speech by Pastor Mike McBride was given the day the DA in Louisville Kentucky announced the Grand Jury ruling around the Breanna Taylor case. Pastor Mike was not only speaking about the case but...
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