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Letters and Politics – August 19, 2025

A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich. The post Letters and Politics – August 19, 2025 [https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-august-19-2025/] appeared first on KPFA [https://kpfa.org].

Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed

Guest: Guest: Lisa Duggan is a journalist, historian, activist and Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is a journalist, historian, activist and Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is the author of the new book Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed The post Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed [https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-august-18-2025/] appeared first on KPFA [https://kpfa.org].

THE GRANDMOTHERS OF THE DISAPPEARED

Haley Cohen Gilliland is a journalist and the director of the Yale Journalism Initiative. She is the author of the book A Flower Traveled in my Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children. The post THE GRANDMOTHERS OF THE DISAPPEARED [https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-august-14-2025/] appeared first on KPFA [https://kpfa.org].

Africa and the Making of the Modern World

Guest: Howard W. French is a professor of journalism at Columbia University and former New York Times bureau chief in the Caribbean and Central America, West and Central Africa, Tokyo, and Shanghai. He is the author of the book Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War. The post Africa and the Making of the Modern World [https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-august-13-2025/] appeared first on KPFA [https://kpfa.org].

Early Christianity & The Making of Hell

Guest: Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of Journeys to Heaven and Hell: Tours of the Afterlife in the Early Christian Tradition The post Early Christianity & The Making of Hell [https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-august-12-2025/] appeared first on KPFA [https://kpfa.org].