Tidings podcast – Hazel Kahan

Dr. Urvi Khaitan, historian and Prize Fellow at Harvard University's Center for History and Economy, tells us how learning about Indian women and food policies and practices during India's severe World War II food insecurity, can equip us to better survive threats to the world's food systems from climate collapse and global human migration. (WPKN, […] The post Dr. Urvi Khaitan: Lessons for climate collapse from WWII-era Indian women appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

This month Hazel Kahan's guest on Tidings is her 18-year-old granddaughter Maggie Keating who lives in Long Beach, on Long Island. NY.  Maggie and her friend Issy spoke to Tidings five years ago when they were 8th graders in the middle of Covid-era lockdown, a significant marker for their generation. However,  today, Maggie reflects on […] The post Maggie Keating at 18: reflections on this threshold moment appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine, is this month’s guest on Tidings. Not only was he present at what he calls “the trailing edge of the hippies” of the Internet’s birth, but his participation continues deep within the ethos shaping the Creative Commons, Public Domain, open source technology and Wikipedia […] The post Brewster Kahle: The Internet in Transition appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

  Nature-based psychotherapist and author Jeanne Malmgren whose Rx Nature Substack encompasses the idea of Nature as her “co-therapist”, speaks to us from storm-ravaged Sunset, South Carolina in the immediate aftermath of the December wildfires in California as she explores several complex and evolving answers to her question: “Can we still love Nature?”  (WPKN, February 12, […] The post Ecotherapist and author Jeanne Malmgren asks: can we still love Nature? appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

We return to a Tidings interview recorded in 2017 with musician, composer and humanitarian activist Malek Jandali, speaking from New York about the important role music plays in peace while his homeland Syria was in the most profound grip of a decades-long brutal regime. We hear Malek Jandali again seven years later, in brief comments […] The post Syrian-American musician-composer Malek Jandali on building peace through music appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

In the first days of the pandemic, farmer and writer Adam Wilson was offered $500k of inherited family money by a local community member to disentangle 113 acres of upstate New York grassland from the real estate market. This would be the first and last time the farm or anything grown on the farm would […] The post Adam Wilson: Farming and feeding in the gift economy appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Shane Burley, Oregon-based journalist, author and filmmaker, talks about Anti-Zionist Workers Are Being Purged From Jewish Institutions Across the US, his months-long investigation based on interviews with antiZionist Jewish professionals who, since October 7, have been purged and defunded by Jewish educational organizations across America for being even slightly critical of Israel's genocide or supportive […] The post Shane Burley reports on Jewish educational organizations purging their anti-Zionist professional employees appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Rebekah Berndt, writer, spiritual director and psychic reader, talks to us from Charleston, South Carolina about her love of weird and magical bookshops, their often eccentric owners, how she cares for her books and connects to their past owners through their notes and markings in the books. More on Rebekah’s Substack The Unfolding. (WPKN,  September […] The post Rebekah Berndt on magical bookshops and their eccentric owners appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Steve Wick, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, journalist, formerly of Newsday and more recently editor of the Suffolk Times, talks about his earlier work, two new upcoming books, the importance of local journalism and emphasizes that, “if you want to get the present right, you have to get the past right” which means, he says, uncovering the […] The post Steve Wick, author and journalist, on uncovering the truth and telling the whole story appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Nick Duffell, noted psychotherapist and author calls us from London to speak about the psychological impact of elite British boarding schools on not only the young mostly boy boarders, but on adult ex-boarders, their families and, as ”wounded leaders” on the nation itself. (WPKN July 10, 2024) More about Nick and boarding school syndrome and psychotherapeutic […] The post Nick Duffell: how British boarding schools shape children, leaders and the country itself appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Jeff Halper is an Israeli-American anthropologist, author, lecturer, and political activist  has lived in Israel since 1973. He is the Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and a co-founder of The One Democratic State Campaign. A Jewish Israeli, Jeff speak to us from Jerusalem about Israel's entrenched use of humiliation to control the […] The post Jeff Halper: Israel’s weaponization of humiliation appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

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 […] The post Dr. Yara Asi: How can we measure Gaza’s trauma? appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

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, 2024)     The post John Christian Phifer: Natural Burial and Conservation appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

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 to the […] The post Michelle Berry Lane on Separation and Conviviality appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

  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 appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

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 […] The post Professor emeritus Michael Zweig on why he wrote “Class, Race and Gender” appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

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 through Zatoun’s olive oil appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

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 for the future […] The post Yumna Patel analyzes Israel’s 2023 assault on the Jenin refugee camp appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

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, informed by his experiences with Superstorm Sandy […] The post Adam Greenfield’s vision of Lifehouses for the Long Emergency of climate change collapse appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

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, May 10, 2023) The post Kimberly Coburn: Crafts, fermentation and the end of the world as we know it appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Co-founder and former paramedic Steve Muth, talks about NYC Medics , a small, nimble volunteer emergency medical team of paramedics and doctors based in New York City who are ready to be boots on the ground in global disaster areas within 48 hours. (WPKN March 8, 2023) The post Steve Muth: NYC Medics brings rapid global disaster relief appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

  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 appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Chris Antal, Staff Chaplain and Dr. Peter Yeomans, Staff Psychologist at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Philadelphia talk about understanding the suffering of moral injury among U.S. combat-deployed Veterans and their facilitation of a 12-week Moral Injury Group and Community Healing Ceremony in which Veterans’ burdens are shared by the community made more […] The post Moral injury and sharing responsibility for war’s consequences appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Aanchal Malhotra speaks to Tidings from Delhi about her beautiful book “Remnants of Partition: 21 objects from a content divided“, in which survivors of Partition talk about the one precious object they carried across the border  that created India and Pakistan … View full post →

Jungian-oriented psychoanalyst and author Dr. Candace De Puy analyzes the recent intense emotions surrounding anti-abortion politics through the lens of Carl G. Jung's analytical psychology theories of individuation, archetypes and the collective unconscious.  Dr. De Puy, based in Los Angeles, is  co-author … View full post →

Following on from his talk: “Slaughter of the Innocents: an archetypal understanding of the tragedy of school shootings,” Dr. Michael Conforti, Jungian analyst, author and founder and director of the Assisi Institute, examines the escalation of child killings through his psychoanalytic … View full post →

Constance Mallinson, Los Angeles-based artist, writer and curator talks about the history of the Sublime in landscape painting and how climate change has influenced the way today's artists represent landscape and nature, with examples from the exhibited in Mapping the … View full post →

This month’s guest on Tidings is Palestinian-American author and journalist Ramzy Baroud who, in addition to his numerous books and writings, is author of the recently published Common Dreams article: “From Korea to Libya: On the Future of Ukraine and … View full post →

In this episode of Tidings from Hazel Kahan, Noam Cohen, author, journalist and Wikipedia editor, takes us inside Wikipedia to show us how its articles actually come into being as a bastion of sources-based truth and bulwark against fake news, … View full post →

Sam Pelts, artist, activist, Special Project Manager for the CODEX Foundation and one of the founding organizers of the remarkable, expansive  EXTRACTION: Art on the Edge of the Abyss, an exhibition that took place throughout 2021 to raise the alarm … View full post →

Guneeta Singh Bhalla tells us why she left her career as a young physicist to tell other people’s oral histories of Partition, nearly 10,000 of which are archived in The 1947 Partition Archive which she founded in 2010.  Broadcast on WPKN … View full post →

Yaron Matras, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manchester, speaks from the UK via Skype, about his book The Romani Gypsies.  The interview includes a modern version of Gelem Gelem, often used as the anthem of the Romani people.  It was composed by Zarko … View full post →

Although we hear about climate change every day, we actually know more about its impact on the planet itself  than we do about its effects on our mental health. In this Tidings from Hazel Kahan, climate psychology experts talk about … View full post →

Dr. William Grevatt, Los Angeles-based educator and Jungian analyst and President of the C.G. Jung Study Center of Southern California, talks about his new book The Alchemy of Tyrann: A Jungian Perspective, in which he explains why, 75 years after the … View full post →

Why do the words socialism and democratic socialism get  Americans so riled up these days?? What’s so fearful about “From each according to ability; to each according to need”? As I searched for answers to these questions, I was fortunate … View full post →

Well-known botanist and conservationist Tom Rawinski talks about moving from his work in the field educating northeast region towns how to manage the connections between their forests, their deer and their hunters to becoming a Fellow in the coveted Harvard … View full post →

Isabella Tree talks about her latest book Wilding, a new kind of creation story.  From the Knepp estate in Britain’s  West Sussex, Ms. Tree tells how she and her husband Charlie Burrell, defeated by its deep clay soil to intensively farm … View full post →

Issy and Maggie, two 8th grade girls from Long Island, New York talk about how the first months of living through a pandemic have altered the ways they see themselves, their friends and social media — and what “going back … View full post →

Maya Lasker Wallfisch, psychoanalytic psychotherapist specializing in the transmission of transgenerational trauma and author of Letter to Breslau, speaks to us from London via Skype both as a psychologist and as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor.  (Broadcast on WPKN … View full post →

Jungian analyst and scholar Dr. George Elder talks about the psychology of apocalypse and pandemic as seen through the lens the theories of Carl G. Jung.   He tells us how Jungian thought can help us understand the massive forces … View full post →

I return in March 2020 from a very special, very personal three-week journey to Lahore, the town of my birth. I think of it as a coda, closing a circle, a swan song and I want to share it. (Broadcast on WPKN … View full post →

Israel’s Origin Story Dr. Alice Rothchild talks about Israel’s origin story and Zionism’s uneasy relationship with antisemitism (Mondoweiss, Nov. 19, 2019)  on Tidings on WPKN radio. (Broadcast on WPKN on December 11, 2019 and produced by Tony Ernst.) This month, … View full post →

part 2 In this second of the special two-part Tidings from Hazel Kahan program, Pakistani filmmaker Shireen Pasha talks about making making her film Hima Remembers, which explores the extraordinary time in the history of the Indian subcontinent after the … View full post →

part 1 In this first of a special two-part Tidings program, Pakistani filmmaker Shireen Pasha tells the story of 17th and 18th century Lucknow, a fabled Indian city and its famous courtesan culture that serves as background for Shireen’s documentary … View full post →

Israel-born and -bred psychotherapist and activist, Avigail Abarbanel, brings her psychological expertise to analyze how changing the language we use can fundamentally alter the way we understand human and geopolitical relationships, with particular reference to Israel’s settler-colonialism in Palestine. This conversation is a … View full post →

This month, my guest is Ayeda Ayed, a Palestinian-Canadian expert on the culture of the Arab-speaking world. A performer herself, she speaks to us from Toronto about the Palestinian music scene and introduces us to recordings from its most significant women … View full post →

These Tidings first came to you from Jamaica where I spent time with two artists in their family “yard”or compound in Oracabessa.  You’ll hear Rani Carson talk about her journey from growing up Jewish to becoming a Rasta artist.              Ras Ibrak, … View full post →

Tom Scovel returns to Woodstock School after 62 years and has many tales, thoughts and revelations to tell his erstwhile classmate, Hazel Selzer. We chat on Skype between California and the east end of Long Island, the conversation is broadcast … View full post →

For a few months now I have been wondering what does it feel like to be dying?  We can describe our own hunger, joy, pain, fear, excitement, fatigue, so why shouldn’t we also be able to describe our own dying? … View full post →

A Tidings conversation about hospitality, friendship and loyalty with Raza Rumi, a Pakistani journalist, blogger, author of Delhi by Heart: Impressions of a Pakistani traveller and follower of Sufi thought.  The subject of hospitality holds a certain irony for Raza … View full post →

Dr. Ramzy Baroud talks about growing up in an UNRWA-managed refugee camp in Gaza, the significance of the Trump administration’s recent retraction of UNRWA funding to the Palestinians and why this amounts to an existential threat to Palestinians’ Right of … View full post →