Tidings with Hazel Kahan

Hazel Kahan’s guest on Tidings is Aanchal Malhotra, speaking to us from Delhi in India. Aanchal is an oral historian and the author of a very beautiful book, Remnants of Partition: 21 objects from a continent divided . It’s beautiful because of the wonderful photographs heading each of the 21 chapters, because of the writing and, beautiful perhaps most of all, for the idea of remnants—the objects...

Thomas Little , North Carolina-based artist, writer , ink historian, ink and pigment maker, and proprietor of A Rural Pen Inkworks, uses the lens of alchemy and magic to examine his own work of making ink from weapons dissolved in acid. ( WPKN June 1, 2026)

Rhodes Scholar Suchintan Das talks to Hazel Kahan on Tidings about mass detention, the subject of his D.Phil thesis at Oxford University: Empire, War, and Mass-Detention: A History of Encampment and Internment in India (1937-1967). Through case studies, Das shows how encampment and internment in wartime and post-war India illuminate mass detention policies and practices so familiar to us in Americ...

Jeanne Malmgren, Nature-based psychotherapist and author   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?” 

Author, editor and environmental journalist Tara Lohan   talks to Hazel Kahan on Tidings from Bend, Oregon about her new book Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life in which she describes the building of dams and the growing movement to remove them. (WPKN March 2, 2026)

Brewster Kahle is founder of the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine . 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 (Noam Cohen talked about Wikipedia in the December 2021 episode of Tidings ). First bro...

Born in Jerusalem, Robert Massoud , is a Palestinian-Canadian activist, entrepreneur, who came to Canada as a child. In 2004, he founded Zatoun , a grassroots organization to support Palestinian farmers in the West Bank by promoting and selling their olive oil in North America for fair trade prices. Speaking to us from Toronto, Robert explains why  Palestine continues to be an issue and conflict f...

Chuck Collins, author, researcher, storyteller and campaigner based at the Institute for Policy Studies, talks about his brand new book Burned by Billionaires: how concentrated wealth and power are ruining our lives and planet , and some of the ways we can reduce this impact on the landscapes of our lives. 

This month, Hazel Kahan’s guest on Tidings is John Christian Phifer , executive Director of Larkspur Conservation and president of the Conservation Burial Alliance . Speaking to us from Tennessee, he describes how, after 20 years in the funeral industry, he transformed the focus of his work to natural burial practices and the protection and stewardship of land through conservation burial.  Wednesd...

Jeff Halper, Jewish Israeli, author, activist, advocate, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, speaking from Jerusalem where he’s lived since 1973, tells us why he thinks Israel has been getting away with it.

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 in 1947—and the power these remnants have  to tell a story we might not otherwise hear. (Broadcast on WPKN July 9, 2025)

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. (First broadcast on WPKN July 10, 2024) More about Nick and boarding school syndrome in psychotherapeutic practice and The...

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, May 14, 2025)

On one of the last days of her senior year, 18-year-old Maggie Keating talks to her grandmother about Covid memories, high school, preparing for college, voting, AI, radio, music and WPKN. 

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?”  (Broadcast on WPKN , February 12, 2025)