KPFK Wed. 4/19: KEVIN PHILLIPS on the REPUBLICANS

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American Theocracy : The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21stCenturyKEVIN PHILLIPS talks about the newest stage of the Republican majority: “a nightmarish vision of ideological extremism, catastrophic fiscal irresponsibility, [and] rampant greed” – that’s how historian Alan Brinkley described Kevin’s new book, American Theocracy, in the New York Times Book Review.
READ Kevin Phillips online in The Nation this week.

Plus: HAROLD MEYERSON on the new immigrant rights movement: With each passing week, he says, “it seems to grow both larger and smarter.” Harold wrote about it in the LA Weekly; he also writes for The American Prospect and the Washington Post op-ed page.

Howl and Other Poems :   (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)Also: “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness,
starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn
looking for an angry fix . . . .”
It’s the 50th anniversary of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” – DAVID ULIN, book editor of the L.A. Times, comments on the poem that changed America.
READ David Ulin on “Howl”