Interchange

Series produced by WFHB

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Interchange, an interview-based radio show and podcast produced by WFHB in Bloomington, Indiana, gets to the questions that have shaped how we understand ourselves.

As WFHB's longest running public affairs show, Interchange has shared conversations with hundreds of scholars and other experts on politics, religion, metaphysics, economics, history, revolution, ecology, and climate change. Today the stakes stand in stark relief, we challenge our perspectives—as individuals and communities, as thinkers and actors, as people in the world—in effort to change our course.


448 Pieces

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Marc Edelman argues that the ways in which rural communities have been abandoned by capital have been a cornerstone in the rise of authoritarian po...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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Caption: A drilling crew poses for the above photo in 1931 (without respirators) in the Hawks Nest Tunnel. Courtesy of Elkem Metals Collection, West Virginia State Archives.
Today, we’ll resurface three poets on the political Left who wrote during the 1930s and 40s: Muriel Rukeyser, Genevieve Taggard, and Martha Millet....

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  • Added: Sep 15, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Though the riots and looting of the George Floyd uprising might seem spectacular or particular to our moment, looting as a strategy of black libera...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: Malcolm X photographs Muhammad Ali after his victory over Sonny Liston in 1964. (Photo: Bob Gomel/CC)
Central to the political philosophy of Malcolm X is police brutality – this unaccountable violence undermines any claim that might be made to sugge...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2020
  • Length: 59:02
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The current uprisings, which are beginning to threaten the status quo of policing in the United States and bringing the demands of abolition into t...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2020
  • Length: 58:22
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Our show today focuses primarily on liberalism as another version of white supremacy. It has always instructed the oppressed to “go slow” for any s...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:15
Caption: James Baldwin on the water of the Golden Horn, Istanbul © Sedat Pakay 1965. , Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
In his book Mullen shows how Baldwin’s life is “a bracing testimonial to being the first African-American radical to make his sexuality an integral...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2020
  • Length: 59:19
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The show is Against Moral Saints: on the politics and philosophy of two writers who, by reputation at least, must stand as almost antithetical figu...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:02
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Today we’re joined by two of the four hosts of the Black Myths Podcast which is produced in Indianapolis: Too Black, a spoken word poet and teachin...

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  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 59:04
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Caption: An eviction protest in New York City dated Jan. 11, 1933.
As protests over the killing of George Floyd have taken over the streets of every major city, have converted hotels to homeless shelters and best f...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: George Floyd protests, downtown Indianapolis, 2020-05-29. Credit -Anonymous Indianapolis Social Worker.
While this immense degree of mass uprising is certainly unprecedented in the history of the US, this is not a moment that stands in isolation. The ...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 58:32
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The fact that the Virus is a symptom of capitalism seems like a simple conclusion, but Povinelli explains that the Virus reveals how historic modes...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: Wilbur Ross, "King of Bankruptcy," vulture capitalist, and US Secretary of Commerce.
Bankruptcy, it turns out, and as Donald Trump typifies, is a best practice, and best supported by government. This is a part of statecraft as conce...

  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
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In her book, The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s, published by Knopf, Maggie Doherty, tells the story o...

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  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
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What is most striking is that what Dan Nemser describes of 17th century Mexico City is a mode of organization nearly unchanged over four centuries....

  • Added: May 12, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: Herd Immunity?
Herd immunity is not going to happen with COVID-19. Sam Scarpino tells us that the US missed the chance to contact trace and now social distance pr...

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  • Added: Apr 28, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
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Caption: Woman at Sunset (1818), Caspar David Friedrich
Coping with being totally alone and the sorrow of loss after a global plague are powerfully depicted in Mary Shelley’s 1826 novel The Last Man. Eil...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
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Helen Scott’s book tracks the way productions of the play reveal the politics of each successive age – how to some Prospero is the benevolent mage ...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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We look at the local effects of COVID-19 in Italy with IU prof Andrea Ciccarelli and then turn to the socio-political impacts of becoming a digital...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
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Local concerns for vulnerable populations: Mia Beach talks with Kass Botts of the Indiana Recovery Alliance and Forrest Gilmore of The Shalom Commu...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2020
  • Length: 59:01