Show
Date  | Days
to
Stay | Action
Notice: Undefined index: sh_djname in /home/kpfkarch/public_html/index_one.php on line 1834
|
|
█ KPFK Online ProgrammingScholars Circle - Podcast
|
|
Sunday, July 5, 2026 12:01 pm
|
0:58:00
|
|
| Host:
|
| Doug Becker
|
| Guests:
|
| Naomi Paik, Univ. of Ill Chicago, Gabriel Jack Chin, UC Davis, Hiroshi Motomur UCLA and Anna Law CUNY Brooklyn Collegea
|
| Topics
|
| Although the US Supreme court confirmed Birthright Citizenship, the decision was not unanimous. Why did so many members of the Court oppose the 14th Amendment?
Then, the latest supreme court decisions have enabled the president to strip humanitarian protections from immigrants who came from war torn countries and other danger zones, even if they are in the country legally. What do this mean for human rights in America?
|
| You can hear this and other interviews at www.scholarscircle.org
|
|
|
74 |
|
Notice: Undefined index: sh_djname in /home/kpfkarch/public_html/index_one.php on line 1834
|
█ KPFK Online ProgrammingScholars Circle - Podcast
|
|
Sunday, June 28, 2026 12:01 pm
|
0:58:00
|
|
| Host:
|
| Doug Becker
|
| Guests:
|
| Robert J. Spitzer at SUNY Cortland, New York, Eric J. Segall, at Georgia State University and Carlton Larson at the University of California at Davis.
|
| Topics
|
| If its June, its time for Supreme Court decisions. On today’s show we will explore recent rulings on two large topics. The first is the extent of the second amendment. That’s the gun rights Amendment and the right to bear arms. Then we will turn to the broad question, is the Constitution colorblind? What role does and should race play in Supreme Court decisions?
|
| You can hear this and other interviews at www.scholarscircle.org
|
|
|
67 |
|
Notice: Undefined index: sh_djname in /home/kpfkarch/public_html/index_one.php on line 1834
|
█ KPFK Online ProgrammingScholars Circle - Podcast
|
|
Sunday, June 21, 2026 12:01 pm
|
0:58:00
|
|
| Host:
|
| Doug Becker
|
| Guests:
|
| Simon Rofe, Sports Diplomacy, Leeds Beckett Univ.; Daniel Durbin, Sports, Media and Society, USC Annenberg School of Communications; Lindsay Krasnoff, Institute for Global Sport, New York Univ.; Nick Cull, Public Diplomacy, USC
|
| Topics
|
| In the global obsession with soccer and the World Cup, how much goodwill goes to the host country? And has the United State's visa controversies and FIFA's corruption undermined this goodwill?
|
| You can hear this and other interviews at www.scholarscircle.org
|
|
|
60 |
|
Notice: Undefined index: sh_djname in /home/kpfkarch/public_html/index_one.php on line 1834
|
█ KPFK Online ProgrammingScholars Circle - Podcast
|
|
Sunday, June 14, 2026 12:01 pm
|
0:58:00
|
|
| Host:
|
| Doug Becker
|
| Guests:
|
| Yeghia Tashjian, Ervand Abrahamian and Stephen Zunes
|
| Topics
|
| The War between Israel and the US on one side and Iran and Lebanon on the other is in its fourth month. Despite claims from the White House that a deal is imminent, the war and the destruction have continued. Indeed the concept of a cease fire is undermined with every attack. The global economy is struggling with the increased energy costs due to the closing of the Straits of Hormuz. And people continue to die. So on today’s show we update the news on the war, explore any potential pathways to end the war and examine the impact of the war particularly on both Iran and Lebanon.
|
| You can hear this and other interviews at www.scholarscircle.org
|
|
|
53 |
|
Notice: Undefined index: sh_djname in /home/kpfkarch/public_html/index_one.php on line 1834
|
█ KPFK Online ProgrammingScholars Circle - Podcast
|
|
Sunday, June 7, 2026 12:01 pm
|
0:58:00
|
|
| Host:
|
| Doug Becker
|
| Guests:
|
| Amesha Adalja of John Hopkins University, Lawrence Gostin of Gerogetown university and Heather Wipfli of University of Maryland.
|
| Topics
|
| Africa once again has an Ebola outbreak. At this point, it is centered in the so-called Greak Lakes region, with the largest number of cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Uganda has also seen several cases. Sadly this is not new news. But it takes place in the context of a weakened World Health Organization, with the US withdrawal, and a stark memory of the Covid outbreaks. It also is exacerbated by the shuttering of USAID and severe cuts in health funding from the Trump Administration. The United States is insisting that any American that tests positive for the virus would be treated outside of the country, provoking protests in East Africa such as in Kenya. So is the Ebola outbreak a potential pandemic? What has been the most effective means to treat these kinds of outbreaks. And how does it influence the current intense discourses about health care delivery and wellness in the United States.
|
| You can hear this and other interviews at www.scholarscircle.org
|
|
|
46 |
|
Notice: Undefined index: sh_djname in /home/kpfkarch/public_html/index_one.php on line 1834
|
█ KPFK Online ProgrammingScholars Circle - Podcast
|
|
Sunday, May 31, 2026 12:01 pm
|
0:58:00
|
|
| Host:
|
| Doug Becker
|
| Guests:
|
| Christian Grose, USC - Matthew Barreto, UCLA - Isaac Hale, Occidental College
|
| Topics
|
| With California's elections coming on June 2, we explore the races at the top of the state and local ballots. What are the issues that have dominated the campaigns?
First we look at candidates and issues for California Governors race.
Then, In Los Angeles, LA mayor Karen Bass is being challenged in a tight race by two challengers. What do we know about these three candidates?.
Issues of homelessness, housing, affordability, crime, and reaction to climate disasters such as wildfires have dominated the LA mayoral race. How have the top candidates proposed addressing these issues?
|
| You can hear this and other interviews at www.scholarscircle.org
|
|
|
39 |
|
Notice: Undefined index: sh_djname in /home/kpfkarch/public_html/index_one.php on line 1834
|
█ KPFK Online ProgrammingScholars Circle - Podcast
|
|
Sunday, May 24, 2026 12:01 pm
|
0:58:00
|
|
| Host:
|
| Doug Becker
|
| Guests:
|
| Karla Vermeulen, Director, Institute for Disaster Mental Health; Robin Gurwitch, faculty, Duke Univ. Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Heather Littleton, Director of Operations, Lyda Hill Institute for Human Resilience
|
| Topics
|
| What psychological damage is done to the survivors and witnesses of mass shootings? What are effective actions to confront the traumas experienced by the children who survive school shootings?
|
| You can hear this and other interviews at www.scholarscircle.org
|
|
|
32 |
|
Notice: Undefined index: sh_djname in /home/kpfkarch/public_html/index_one.php on line 1834
|
█ KPFK Online ProgrammingScholars Circle - Podcast
|
|
Sunday, May 17, 2026 12:01 pm
|
0:58:00
|
|
| Host:
|
| Doug Becker
|
| Guests:
|
| Rachel Rebouch is Prof. of Law at the Univ. of Texas at Austin., Carole Joffe is Prof. Reproductive Sciences at the Univ. of California, San Francisco and Natalie Fixmer-Oriaz, Prof. Univ. of Iowa.
|
| Topics
|
| Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, reproductive rights advocated have turned to what is called medication abortion. One of the key medications, mifepristone, is often prescribed via telehealth and through the mail. A Circuit Court has sought to block this practice. We discuss the case and the future of medication abortion.
|
| You can hear this and other interviews at www.scholarscircle.org
|
|
|
25 |
|
Notice: Undefined index: sh_djname in /home/kpfkarch/public_html/index_one.php on line 1834
|
█ KPFK Online ProgrammingScholars Circle - Podcast
|
|
Sunday, May 10, 2026 12:01 pm
|
0:57:59
|
|
| Host:
|
| Doug Becker
|
| Guests:
|
| Eric J. Segall Professor of Law Georgia State University, Seth C. McKee Professor of Political Science at Oklahoma State University, and Christian Grose is Professor of Political Science at USC.
|
| Topics
|
| The Voting Rights Act, or VRA, is viewed as the most important piece of legislation advancing civil rights in the 1960s. Passed in 1965, it was intended to redress the dis-empowerment of African Americans whose voting rights had been restricted due to several states legislation, ranging from poll taxes to literacy tests and other restrictions on voting. Throughout the Roberts Court, the VRA has been restricted and its protections stripped away. In 2026, perhaps the last of these provisions have been overturned, in a decision in the case Louisiana v Callais. On todays show, we will explore this decision and the impact it has on drawing Congressional districts, in an era of particularly aggressive gerrymandering.
|
| You can hear this and other interviews at www.scholarscircle.org
|
|
|
18 |
|
Notice: Undefined index: sh_djname in /home/kpfkarch/public_html/index_one.php on line 1834
|
█ KPFK Online ProgrammingScholars Circle - Podcast
|
|
Sunday, May 3, 2026 12:01 pm
|
0:58:00
|
|
| Host:
|
| Doug Becker
|
| Guests:
|
| Elizabeth Borgwardt is formerJennifer Trahan is a Clinical Professor and Director of the Concentration in International Law and Human Rights at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs, Pozen Professor of Human Rights at the University of Chicago, Mark Drumbl is Professor at Washington and Lee University, School of Law and Hurst Hannum is Professor Emeritus of International Law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
|
| Topics
|
| The last few years have been a particularly challenging time for the international law framework outlines at Nuremberg. The trial of the German leadership at the end of the Second World War, coupled with the creation of the UN and the UN Charter, codified a series of legal obligations for state leaders. It outlawed waging war or even threatening war. It held individual leaders as criminally liable for violating the rules of war. And it promised prosecutions as a result of these violations. While it had never realized its promise, the past few years, from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, to terrorist attacks against Israel and Israel’s waging of war in Gaza and Lebanon, to the Israeli and American war against Iran, have been a particular challenge to the so-called Nuremberg principles. So on today’s show, we explore what these principles are whether international actors can return to their promise.
|
| You can hear this and other interviews at www.scholarscircle.org
|
|
|
11 |
|
Notice: Undefined index: sh_djname in /home/kpfkarch/public_html/index_one.php on line 1834
|
█ KPFK Online ProgrammingScholars Circle - Podcast
|
|
Sunday, April 26, 2026 12:01 pm
|
0:58:00
|
|
| Host:
|
| Doug Becker
|
| Guests:
|
| Anna Law, Chair in Constitutional Rights, CUNY; Julie Novkov, Dean Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy, University at Albany; Jack Chin, Law and Director of Clinical Legal Education at UC Davies School of Law.
|
| Topics
|
| As the US Supreme Court deliberates over the future of Birthright Citizenship, we explore its historic roots in light of immigration, slavery, and Indigenous peoples. How do contemporary ideas of birthright citizenship fit with those of the past? And how might those influence the Supreme Court's upcoming decision? Will it be historic precedents on the matter or more contemporary ideas?
|
| You can hear this and other interviews at www.scholarscircle.org
|
|
|
4 |
|
| All Shows |
A Service of the Pacifica Foundation - Built by
KPFTx
button is to the most recent 5 shows.