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  • Fund Drive Special: Fossil Capitalism and Trees

    Fund Drive Special: Fossil Capitalism and Trees
    May 13 2026
    For as long as we’ve known, humans have revered ancient trees. We have also destroyed them, especially since the advent of colonialism and fossil fuel capitalism. Historian Jared Farmer reflects on what trees illuminate about our past and potential future. The post Fund Drive Special: Fossil Capitalism and Trees appeared first on KPFA.
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    23 Min.
  • Fund Drive Special: What the Frankfurt School Teaches Us About the Right

    Fund Drive Special: What the Frankfurt School Teaches Us About the Right
    May 12 2026
    What has the far right learned from the Frankfurt School? And what can we learn from Frankfurt School thinkers like Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse to understand the appeal of the right? Paul Fleming sheds light on the fixation of conservatives like Christopher Rufo — who has set about remaking higher education — with cultural Marxism. He also discusses Adorno’s insights into the attraction of authoritarian leaders. The post Fund Drive Special: What the Frankfurt School Teaches Us About the Right appeared first on KPFA.
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  • Fund Drive Special: Back to the Gilded Age

    Fund Drive Special: Back to the Gilded Age
    May 11 2026
    It’s no mystery that the fortunes of the very rich have soared under this administration, but the concentration of wealth in the hands of the very few is a hallmark of capitalism itself. Economist Rob Larson returns to discuss the state of capitalism today, with massive subsidies for the wealthy and a war that’s starting to send shock waves across the world. The post Fund Drive Special: Back to the Gilded Age appeared first on KPFA.
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  • Fund Drive Special: Unmasking the Far Right

    Fund Drive Special: Unmasking the Far Right
    May 6 2026
    The Trump administration uses antifascism as a term of abuse and has branded Antifa domestic terrorists. Yet antifascism has a long but often little known history in the U.S. Journalist Christopher Mathias describes the efforts of radicals to unmask and dismantle the far right. Please donate in support of KPFA and Against the Grain. The post Fund Drive Special: Unmasking the Far Right appeared first on KPFA.
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  • Fund Drive Special: Against the Attention Economy

    Fund Drive Special: Against the Attention Economy
    May 5 2026
    It’s been called a new gold rush, but not of our external environment, which continues to be plundered, but of our internal environment — of our psyches. Historian of science D. Graham Burnett, one of the Friends of Attention, lays out what’s at stake — and how they’re organizing a movement to reclaim our attention. The post Fund Drive Special: Against the Attention Economy appeared first on KPFA.
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  • U.S. Capitalism, Empire, and Anti-Asian Violence

    U.S. Capitalism, Empire, and Anti-Asian Violence
    May 4 2026
    Recessions, trade wars, labor unrest — in moments of societal crisis in the United States, Asian-Americans have been perennially targeted, from the destruction of Chinatowns by white mobs, to the mass internment of Japanese-Americans during WW2, to attacks against Asians during Covid. Historian Scott Kurashige reflects on more than 175 years of anti-Asian violence and its connection to U.S. empire abroad and a divided working class at home. Scott Kurashige, American Peril: The Violent History of Anti-Asian Racism UC Press, 2026 Photo by Jason Leung on Unsplash The post U.S. Capitalism, Empire, and Anti-Asian Violence appeared first on KPFA.
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  • Sugar and Capitalism

    Sugar and Capitalism
    Apr 28 2026
    Sugar may seem like a natural, almost eternal substance, cultivated over thousands of years. But it was remade by capitalism and turned into a homogenized commodity. Enslaved labor was central to sugar production on vast plantations, which would then be discarded as sugar laid waste to both the lands and human bodies. And, as historian of science David Singerman illustrates, scientific techniques were utilized to standardize sugar, while attempting to replace the knowledge of the workers who labored in its refineries. David Singerman, Unrefined: How Capitalism Reinvented Sugar University of Chicago Press, 2025 Photo by Immo Wegmann on Unsplash The post Sugar and Capitalism appeared first on KPFA.
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  • Science Fiction and the Far Right

    Science Fiction and the Far Right
    Apr 27 2026
    Fiction that imagines alternate futures is often associated with the left — with writers like Octavia Butler and Ursula LeGuin. But the tropes of science fiction are well-suited to the right and, as Jordan Carroll illustrates, far right authors and aficionados have populated the ranks of speculative fiction since its inception, like ardent science fiction fan and neo-Nazi party founder James Madole. Carroll discusses the right’s ongoing fight to claim the future. Jordan S. Carroll, Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right University of Minnesota Press, 2024 Photo by Robynne O on Unsplash The post Science Fiction and the Far Right appeared first on KPFA.
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