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Last week, KPFA’s Against the Grain interviewed UC Press author Daniel Martinez HoSang about California’s fiscal crisis and the false narrative that economic hardship in the state is something new. In the KPFA interview, as well as in his article, “Race and the Mythology of California’s Lost Paradise,” published in the inaugural issue of Boom, [more...]  Yesterday on KPFA 94.1 FM, Jack Foley hosted the prequel to an 8-part series based on Poems for the Millennium Volume Three, edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Jeffrey C. Robinson. In yesterday’s episode, Foley read “Hamlet, Keats, La Conscience de Soi”, thoughts on romantic poetry and self-consciousness, from his Alsop Review column Foley’s Books. “La conscience de [more...] There is no place for death in most modern-day American homes. The “parlor”, where wakes used to be held, is now known as the “living room”, as author Nancy Scheper-Hughes notes in her essay “Death and Dying in Anxious America”, from Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman’s edited volume The Insecure American. Scheper-Hughes finds that the [more...] Daniel Geary, author of Radical Ambition: C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought was recently interviewed on Behind the News with Doug Henwood. From the KPFA Website: “Behind the News covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Shows typically consist of some opening [more...] |
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