Dr. Yara Asi, author of How War Kills; The Overlooked Threats to our Health (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024) and New York Times guest essay, is assistant professor at the University of Central Florida, where she studies physical and mental health in conflict-affected and fragile populations. A Palestinian born in the occupied West Bank town […

John Christian Phifer is executive director of Larkspur Conservation and president of the Conservation Burial Alliance. Speaking to us from Tennessee, he describes how, after 15 years in the funeral industry, he transformed his focus to natural burial practices and the protection and stewardship of land through conservation burial. (WPKN, April 10,…

Kimberly Coburn, writer, maker, founder of The Homestead Atlanta and leader in a movement seeking to remedy today’s “skills amnesia” by reclaiming pre-industrialization crafts and skills–such as fermentation–to support life in what many believe is widespread systems collapse or unravelling of the world as we have known it. (First broadcast on WPKN,…

Michelle Berry Lane, poet, writer and former science teacher, describes how human creatures in these times of late-stage capitalism and modernity have separated from and forgotten their relationship to the earth and all its other creatures. Citing Ivan Illich among others, she shows us how conviviality and mutuality can help use re-member ourselves…

Maya Lasker-Wallfisch Maya Lasker Wallfisch, London-based psychoanalytic psychologist and author talks to us in both personal and professional terms about the psychology of trans-generational transmission of trauma. The daughter of a Holocaust survivor, Maya bears the “wounds of history,” inheriting experiences she has not lived through herself. Sh…

Social thinker, writer and speaker Dougald Hine talks about his new book At Work in the Ruins, Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All the Other Emergencies. Explaining why he believes the world as we know it is coming to an end, he proposes how we might live […] The post Dougald Hine: At Work in the Ruins appear…

Michael Zweig, Stonybrook professor emeritus, labor scholar and activist, talks about his new book Class, Race, and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism and why he wrote this book for young activists and leaders. Professor Zweig is founding director of the Center for Study of Working Class Life at the State University of […]…

Robert Massoud, Palestinian founder of Zatoun, speaks to us from Toronto about the organization as his life’s work and how it has become his voice and the story of Palestine as it also speaks for Palestinians who often lack a direct voice of their own.(First broadcast on WPKN on September 13, 2023.) The post Robert Massoud: the story of Palestine t…

Yumna Patel, Palestine News Director for Mondoweiss, reports from Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank about the significance for Palestinians of last week’s military assault on the Jenin refugee camp. In this reporting, she covers the effect on Palestinian youth of the Palestine Authority’s inability to protect them and what “Gazafication” means fo…

London-based American author and urbanist Adam Greenfield has spent the past quarter-century thinking and working at the intersection of technology, design and politics with everyday life. His books include the bestselling Against the Smart City and Radical Technologies. In this this Tidings interview, he describes his vision of Lifehouses, informe…