In this sweeping amalgam of history, politics, philosophy and culture, Professor Hoodbhoy gives us a detailed profile of Pakistan. Perceptive insights about this strategic nation that straddles the Middle East and Central Asia. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/james-herlihy/message ..read more

Ursula Parrott was a very successful author from 1929 to the late 1940s. A member of the Lost Generation, her body of work consists of 130 novels, short stories and magazine articles that recounted the lives of young women navigating the post WWI world of women's equality. Largely forgotten since the 1950s, Marsha Gordon is re-introducing Parrott's work to the reading public. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/james-herlihy/message ..read more

What do we celebrate on Memorial Day ? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/james-herlihy/message ..read more

Del Seymour, the founder of Code Tenderloin, shares his personal journey from addiction to recovery on the streets of the Tenderloin. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/james-herlihy/message ..read more

San Francisco in the 1970s was dominated by larger than life characters like Jim Jones of the Peoples' Temple, Patty Hearst the heiress turned terrorist, the Zodiac killer, Harvey Milk, George Moscone and Dan White. Author George Albert Brown evokes those heady times with equally colorful characters in "Who killed Jerusalem", in this whodunit with a literary homage to 18th Century English poet William Blake set against the backdrop of San Francisco. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/james-herlihy/message ..read more

Arthur Hailey's 1968 novel Airport was turned into the successful 1970 film Airport. And through the 1970s a series of other Airport films were produced inspired by the popular Disaster genre. Shaun Chang discusses the genre, the cast and the backstory of Airport 1975. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/james-herlihy/message ..read more

Prevention, Intervention and Harm Reduction in the face of a Fentanyl crisis in San Francisco. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/james-herlihy/message ..read more

Turkey is headed for an historic presidential runoff election on Sunday May 28, 2023 with incumbent Erdogan facing challenger Kilicdaroglu. Alp Sevimlisoy outlines what is at stake for the Turkish Republic and its people. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/james-herlihy/message ..read more

ESG investment considerations for the last ten years have had a growing influence on the asset management industry. But of late, they have generated controversy and some states have even enacted anti ESG legislation. What is at play in this debate that impacts every investor and publicly traded company, why is it important and how will your investments and 401K be impacted ? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/james-herlihy/message ..read more

What goes through the minds of non-combatant civilians when war comes to their doorstep as in Ukraine ? Greta Uehling looks at war from the inside perspective of non-combatants and how they rise to heights of bravery in what she terms the dialectic between violent conflict and the ethics of care. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/james-herlihy/message ..read more