KPFA - Letters and Politics
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KPFA Special – How Big Business Linked Capitalism to Democracy
59 mins; May 25, 2023
KPFA Special – The Book of Tea, Multiculturalism, and a Response to the Western Military Domination of Asia (Part III)
33 mins; May 24, 2023
KPFA Special – The Book of Tea, Multiculturalism, and a Response to the Western Military Domination of Asia (Part II)
59 mins; May 23, 2023
KPFA Special – The Book of Tea: In Response to The Western Military Domination of Asia
59 mins; May 22, 2023
KPFA Special – The Map of Knowledge
0 secs; May 18, 2023
KPFA Special – A History of the Athenian Democracy (Part 3): Decline and Fall of the Empire
59 mins; May 17, 2023
KPFA Special – A History of Athenian Democracy (Part 2): Demagogues, Tyrants, and the People
0 secs; May 16, 2023
KPFA Special – A History of Athenian Democracy (Part 1): The Tyrannicide
59 mins; May 15, 2023
Fund Drive Special – On the Biblical Apocalypse: From the Christian Zionism to Waco Texas
59 mins; May 11, 2023
Fund Drive Special – Ancient Rome: From Republic to Empire Series (Part 2)
59 mins; May 10, 2023
Fund Drive Special – Ancient Rome: From Republic to Empire Series (Part 1)
18 mins; May 09, 2023
The Century Long PR Campaign Linking Capitalism to Democracy
59 mins; May 08, 2023
Palo Alto: A History of California, Innovation & Exploitation
59 mins; May 04, 2023
Life and Death of Homosexuals under the Nazi Regime
59 mins; May 03, 2023
George Kennan: The Cold War Architect Who Opposed The War
59 mins; May 02, 2023
The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly: Ben Fletcher
59 mins; May 01, 2023
Inside the Supreme Court’s Ruling to Overturn Roe v Wade
59 mins; April 27, 2023
The Invention of Austerity and the Road to Fascism
59 mins; April 26, 2023
The Sandy Hook Massacre & Conspiracy Theories
59 mins; April 25, 2023
The Rise & Fall of the KKK in the 1920’s
59 mins; April 24, 2023
Mary Wollstonecraft, The French Revolution and the Tyranny of Men
59 mins; April 20, 2023
How Adam Smith Became A Capitalist Icon
19 mins; April 19, 2023
J. Edgar Hoover: From Progressive Icon To Villain
59 mins; April 18, 2023
Is The Government Unconstitutionally Targeting Trump and His Supporters?
59 mins; April 17, 2023
W.E.B. Du Bois’s Lost Book: The Great War and the Black Experience
59 mins; April 13, 2023
The History of the NRA
59 mins; April 12, 2023
Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory. Then, Raj Patel on The Ants & the Grasshopper Film
59 mins; April 11, 2023
The Mexican Revolution and The Migrants Who Sparked it
59 mins; April 10, 2023
The Century Long PR Campaign Linking Capitalism to Democracy
53 mins; April 06, 2023
Trump Indictment: Legal Aspects. Then, The American Catholic Bishops and The Far Right
59 mins; April 05, 2023
Democracy Came From Class Struggle: A Story of Classical Athens
59 mins; April 04, 2023
Trump Indictment: Potential Political Consequences
59 mins; April 03, 2023
The Case of Julian Assange
59 mins; March 30, 2023
A Slow Moving Civil War with Jeff Sharlet
59 mins; March 29, 2023
Pegasus: A Spyware that Threatens Privacy and Democracy. Then, The Implications of Indicting a Former President
59 mins; March 28, 2023
Letters and Politics – March 8, 2023
59 mins; March 27, 2023
On the Biblical Apocalypse: From the Christian Zionism to Waco Texas
59 mins; March 27, 2023
The Trump Campaign’s Collusion With Israel. Then, The Movement and the “MADMAN”
59 mins; March 23, 2023
Phillis Wheatley – A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence
59 mins; March 22, 2023
A History of China, Russia, and U.S. the Relations
59 mins; March 21, 2023
20th Anniversary of the U.S. Occupation of Iraq. Then, Debunking the Conservative Arguments of the Right.
59 mins; March 20, 2023
John Nichols on The Silicon Valley Bank collapse and the Banking Deregulation Laws
59 mins; March 16, 2023
The Twitter Files: Excerpts from the Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government
59 mins; March 15, 2023
The Twitter Files: Excerpts from the Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government
59 mins; March 15, 2023
Richard Wolff on The Meaning of the Collapse of SVB and Signature Banks. Then, Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press
59 mins; March 14, 2023
How Congress Works: Function and Dysfunction
59 mins; March 13, 2023
KPFA Special – The Odyssey, Why it Matters Today
59 mins; March 09, 2023
The Vagina: A History
59 mins; March 08, 2023
V (formerly Eve Ensler) on Writing, Memory, and the Power of an Apology
59 mins; March 07, 2023
KPFA Special – Homage to Judy Heumann; Disability Rights Pioneer
59 mins; March 06, 2023
KPFA Special – Zapatista Stories for Dreaming Another World
59 mins; March 02, 2023
KPFA Fund Drive Special – How Black Women Shaped the Communist Party in America
59 mins; March 01, 2023
KPFA Special – Robin D.G. Kelley: A History of Black Radicalism
59 mins; February 28, 2023
KPFA Special – The Media Coverage of the War in Ukraine
59 mins; February 27, 2023
Fund Drive Special – The Untold History of American Labor
59 mins; February 23, 2023
Fund Drive Special – Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
59 mins; February 22, 2023
KPFA Special- Códice Maya de Mexico, the Oldest Surviving Book of the Americas
59 mins; February 21, 2023
Henrietta Wood & The Case for Reparations
60 hours 13 mins; February 20, 2023
Alain Locke & and the Harlem Renaissance
59 mins; February 16, 2023
Hope & Terror In The Time of Reconstruction
59 mins; February 15, 2023
Palo Alto: A History of California, Innovation & Exploitation
59 mins; February 14, 2023
Northern Syria, Rojava & The Earthquake
59 mins; February 13, 2023
Debriefing Biden’s Second State of the Union Address
59 mins; February 08, 2023
A History of Policing & The Challenges of Reform
59 mins; February 07, 2023
Mussolini’s Daughter & The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism
59 mins; February 06, 2023
Finding the Disappeared Children of the War in El Salvador & The History Behind Black History Month
59 mins; February 02, 2023
From King Leopold II To Big Teach: The Plundering of The Congo & The Invention of Modern Day Slavery
59 mins; February 01, 2023
David Harvey on Karl Marx’s Grundrisse
59 mins; January 31, 2023
German Rearmament & The History of Policing Powers
59 mins; January 30, 2023
Our Wandering Minds: A History of what Early Christian Monks Learned about Distraction 
59 mins; January 26, 2023
How The US-Mexican Drug War Inflamed The Violence & Increased Profits
59 mins; January 25, 2023
The Answer to the Debt-Ceiling Standoff & Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
59 mins; January 24, 2023
George Kennan: The Architect of the Cold War Who Opposed the War
59 mins; January 23, 2023
A History of Africatown
59 mins; January 19, 2023
How Adam Smith Became A Capitalist Icon
59 mins; January 18, 2023
Putin: A Biography
59 mins; January 17, 2023
Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel
59 mins; January 16, 2023
Hannah Arendt’s and Today’s Relevance of Lying in Politics
59 mins; January 12, 2023
The Pacifists & The Good War
59 mins; January 11, 2023
Censorship and Big Tech & Indigenous Justice in Early America
59 mins; January 10, 2023
J. Edgar Hoover: From Progressive Icon To Villain
59 mins; January 09, 2023
Letters and Politics – January 5, 2023
59 mins; January 05, 2023
The History of The Speaker and Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations
59 mins; January 04, 2023
Electing A Speaker
59 mins; January 03, 2023
The Neanderthal: Love, Art & Culture (Re-broadcast)
52 mins; January 02, 2023
Uncovering A Thousand Racially Motivated Murders 1930-1954
59 mins; December 29, 2022
The Diversity of Perception in the Animal Kingdom and How Humans Force Creatures Into an Alien World
59 mins; December 28, 2022
Heterodoxy: The Secret Club That Sparked The Feminist Movement
59 mins; December 27, 2022
How the Islamic Empires Saved the Classical World
59 mins; December 26, 2022
The Triumph of Christianity
59 mins; December 22, 2022
Early Christian Texts & The Making of Hell
59 mins; December 21, 2022
Milman Parry: The Man Who Killed Homer
1 min; December 20, 2022
January 6th Committee Holds Final Public Meeting Hour #1
59 mins; December 19, 2022
KPFA Special: Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Part 4)
59 mins; December 15, 2022
KPFA Special: Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Part 3)
59 mins; December 14, 2022
KPFA Special: Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Part 2)
59 mins; December 13, 2022
KPFA Special: Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Part 1)
59 mins; December 12, 2022
KPFA Special – Whales: From its Ancient Past to its Uncertain Future
59 mins; December 08, 2022
Zapatista Stories
59 mins; December 07, 2022
KPFA Special – David Henry Thoreau: the Man Who Lived in Season
59 mins; December 06, 2022