The Scholars' Circle

The Scholars' Circle Offering Insight Into Today's Most Pressing Issues
Host/Producer:
Maria Armoudian
Doug Becker
Managing Producers:
Ankine Aghassian
Melissa Chiprin

The Scholars’ Circle & The Insighters brings to the airwaves material that the public rarely hears together – knowledge producers and practitioners thinking out loud with each other in areas of their expertise in order to try to shed greater understanding to the big issues and choices before us. It focuses on bridging, rather than dividing, and on larger contexts and questions that underlie current events. Currently, they can be heard on the following stations and frequencies:
KPFK
90.7 FM Los Angeles
98.7 FM Santa Barbara
93.7 San Diego
99.5 FM Ridgecrest/China Lake
WPRR 1680 AM and 95.3 FM Grand Rapids, MI
WAZU 90.7 FM Peoria, Illinois
KMUD 91.1 FM Garberville
KMUE 88.3 FM Eureka/Arcata, CA
KLAI 90.3 FM Laytonville, CA & 99.5 FM Shelter Cove, CA
KKRN 88.5 FM Redding, CA
KPVL 89.1 FM Postville, IA
KRFP 92.5 FM Moscow, ID
WRFI -- 91.9 Watkins Glen, NY
WINO -- 89.9 Odessa, NY & 88.1 Ithaca, NY
Coast Access FM Radio 104.9 FM Waikanae, NZ
KOWA Olympia, WA
KPFT-HD --Houston/Huntsville/Galveston, TX
Geneva Community Radio

The show this week. Segment one is the LA Rebellion black filmmakers at UCLA’s film school in the 1970s. Segment two i...
03/03/2026

The show this week. Segment one is the LA Rebellion black filmmakers at UCLA’s film school in the 1970s. Segment two is a new book about “citrus capitalism” and segregation in Orange County

In the 1960s and 70s, a group of black filmmakers at UCLA produced a diverse collection of films to challenge Hollywood's depiction of black communities. The LA Rebellion presented films with uniquely black stories. What was this movement and what did it accomplish? [ dur: 30mins. ] Allyson Nadi

On this week’s show, What is this “Board of Peace” that the President has proposed? Is it a threat to repacw the UN Sec...
02/03/2026

On this week’s show, What is this “Board of Peace” that the President has proposed? Is it a threat to repacw the UN Security Council? Is it a “pay to play” scheme? We start the show talking about the Board. Then we turn to the actual mission it was created to address: replacing Israeli military occupation in Gaza with a neutral governing structure. Will it succeed in this task? Give it a listen!

In support of the US peace plan for Gaza, President Trump proposed a “Board of Peace” as a transitional governmental authority to ensure Israeli military withdrawal from the territory. It was empowered by the UN Security Council to act on the organization’s behalf as a presumably neutral body ...

President Trump claims he has ended the border war between Thailand and Cambodia. He has not. We explore the roots of ...
12/21/2025

President Trump claims he has ended the border war between Thailand and Cambodia. He has not. We explore the roots of the war, the most recent outbreak of the fighting this month, and the prospects for peace.

Although President Trump claimed that he negotiated a peace deal between Thailand and Cambodia, the border wars are continuing. What is causing this conflict? How does history and national identity impact this war? Why did the war breakout again in 2025? And who might have the greatest influence fo

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