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 America today. (WPKN May 4, 2026)

• 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 Lifein 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 broadcast on WPKN February 9, 2022.

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 for the world. (WPKN, January 5, 2026)

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. Wednesday, September 10 at 6:30 am and 8 pm.

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.