Episodios

  • The Pornography Wars

    The Pornography Wars
    Jul 21 2025
    Guest: Kelsy Burke is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author of The Pornography Wars: The Past, Present, and Future of America’s Obscene Obsession. The post The Pornography Wars appeared first on KPFA.
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    1 h
  • The Century Long PR Campaign Linking Capitalism to Democracy

    The Century Long PR Campaign Linking Capitalism to Democracy
    Jul 17 2025
    Guest: Naomi Oreskes is professor of the history of science at Harvard University. Her books include, The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, and her latest with historian of science and technology Erik Conway, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market. The post The Century Long PR Campaign Linking Capitalism to Democracy appeared first on KPFA.
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    1 m
  • George Monbiot on The Secret History of Neoliberalism

    George Monbiot on The Secret History of Neoliberalism
    Jul 16 2025
    Guest: George Monbiot is an author, journalist, and environmental campaigner. His books include Feral, Heat, Regenesis, and his latest, Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism co-authored with Peter Hutchison. George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison also co-produced the film Invisible Doctrine. The post George Monbiot on The Secret History of Neoliberalism appeared first on KPFA.
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    1 h
  • The Fall of Roman Societies

    The Fall of Roman Societies
    Jul 15 2025
    Guest: Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET) and a Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He is the author of several books including Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire, ...and forgive them their debts, and The Collapse of Antiquity. The post The Fall of Roman Societies appeared first on KPFA.
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    7 m
  • The Fugitive Slave Act

    The Fugitive Slave Act
    Jul 14 2025
    Guest: Andrew Delbanco author of The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War. The post The Fugitive Slave Act appeared first on KPFA.
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    42 m
  • The Power of Agricultural Industry

    The Power of Agricultural Industry
    Jul 10 2025
    Guest: Will Potter is an award-winning investigative journalist who focuses on social justice and environmental movements, and attacks on civil liberties post-9/11. He is the author of Green Is the New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege and his latest, Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth, from Farm to Fable. The post The Power of Agricultural Industry appeared first on KPFA.
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    45 m
  • The Proto-Indo-Europeans

    The Proto-Indo-Europeans
    Jul 9 2025
    Guest: Laura Spinney is a science journalist and the author of Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World and most recently, Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global. The post The Proto-Indo-Europeans appeared first on KPFA.
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    1 h
  • What it Means for Israel To Be a Jewish State

    What it Means for Israel To Be a Jewish State
    Jul 8 2025
    Guest: Yaacov Yadgar is the Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Oxford and the author of several books including Israel’s Jewish Identity Crisis: State and Politics in the Middle East, and his latest To Be a Jewish State: Zionism as the New Judaism. The post What it Means for Israel To Be a Jewish State appeared first on KPFA.
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    1 h