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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Against Moral Saints: Kristian Williams on George Orwell and Oscar Wilde
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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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
From Another Country: Bill Mullen on James Baldwin’s Revolutionary Life
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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
The Plantation On Fire: Yannick Marshall on Liberalism and Anti-Colonialism
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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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
At the Crossroads of Commons and Closure with Historian Peter Linebaugh
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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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
Marking Revolution: Malcolm X and Black-Mindedness
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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
  • Purchases: 1
Reclaiming What’s Ours: Looting in an Age of Uprising
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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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
Out of a Brick Throat: How Poets and Poetry Matter
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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
  • Purchases: 1
Draining the Heartland: Authoritarian Populism in Rural America
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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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
  • Purchases: 1
The Communists Made Us Do It: The Cold War Cover for Mass Murder
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: General Suharto in the days after the September 30th Movement.
"The Jakarta Method" is the anticommunist mass-murder playbook that, due to its great success (the nearly overnight erasure of the largest unarmed ...

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Five Days in Spain: Muriel Rukeyser and the Revolutionary Muse
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Barcelona - July 1936, Credit: Muriel Rukeyser, permission of William L. Rukeyser
Rowena Kennedy-Epstein describes Savage Coast as a young woman’s political and sexual awakening imbued with the anarchist spirit of the moment; it’...

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  • Added: Oct 13, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Concentrating Caliban: A Fund Drive Anthology
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Garrick Palmer. 'Benito Cereno,' Pencil signed proof; 1970.
Today, Interchange shared segments from three episodes that aired throughout the year – they all three touched on aspects of our current moment wit...

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  • Added: Oct 20, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
On Just Being with Scott Russell Sanders
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The centerpiece in today’s program is our talk about the essay “The Suffering of Strangers” which details a visit Sanders took to Charleston, South...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 59:06
  • Purchases: 1
The Negative Example of Clint Eastwood
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Watch an Eastwood movie if you want to learn the worldview that has brought the very planet to the brink of collapse and catastrophe - this is the ...

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  • Added: Nov 03, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Survival and Global War: USA 2020
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Edgar Illas approaches the supposed “postmodern condition” with a practical mindset, finding that on a global level, the cultural logics of the lat...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
Stalking the Middle Class with David Roediger
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today we’re stalking the middle class – from Marx to Middletown (Muncie, IN) to Macomb County, Michigan – to reveal what it’s hiding. David Roedige...

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  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
On Being Against “Freedom”: Recognizing Social Needs
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Social rights might be called rights that constrain what we like to call freedom. Kimberley Brownlee makes these claims primarily against freedom o...

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  • Added: Nov 24, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Needing A Space For Us: On Social Rights with Kimberley Brownlee (Part II)
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: A Black Panther food drive, circa the later 1960s.
This is part two of our exploration of Social Rights as Human Rights with philosopher Kimberley Brownlee, author of Being Sure of Each Other. We’re...

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
St. Louis: Gateway to Genocide
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today’s guest is Walter Johnson, author of The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States. St. Louis turns out...

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  • Added: Dec 08, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
St. Louis: Patterns of Segregation and Alibis for Abandonment
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Mill Creek Valley (St. Louis) circa 1948
Part Two of our conversation with Walter Johnson about his must-read book The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the Uni...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
Without Self and State: 'Tis the Season for Christian Anarchism
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Sieger Köder, Das Mahl mit den Sündern, 1973.
Today, episode producer Nick Bergen talks with Katrina Kniss about her work on Agamben and the Christian anarchist tradition, exploring some of the...

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2020
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1