IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Series produced by Guy Rathbun

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This weekly show is devoted to political, social, economic, ecological, philosophical and religious ideas.

This series has been broadcast on public radio, and podcast on National Public Radio for the past 10 years, and has included such luminaries as Robert Reich, Chris Hedges, Michael K. Hudson, Vincent Buligosi, Richard Heinberg, and many more.


561 Pieces

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The History of Democracy Has Yet to be Written
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Thomas Geoghengan
End the filibuster. Abolish the Senate. Make everyone vote. Only if we do this, and a little bit more, says labor lawyer and former candidate for A...

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  • Added: Sep 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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The Prophetic Lens: The Camera and Black Moral Agency from MLK to Darnella Frazier
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Phil Allen, Jr.
This program is a second in a conversation with author Phil Allen, Jr., in which he highlights the prophetic potential of the camera. Its imagery p...

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  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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Constitution
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: John R. Vile, Credit: newschannel5
The first clause of the First Amendment forbids Congress from adopting any laws tending to the establishment religion. Even with that definitive ve...

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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Chaotic Neutral: How the Democrats Lost Their Soul in the Center
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ed Burmila
The Democrats have lost their footing since the New Deal. That’s how Ed Burmila sees it. Now, he says, they haven’t been able to grasp that they ne...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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Panics without Borders
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Gregory Mitchell
“Zombie Statistics” is what professor Gregory Mitchell calls them. Those are the chunks of data officials use to prove there is a rise in sex-traff...

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Rescue Effect: The Key to Saving Life on the Planet
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Michael Webster
When it comes to climate change, it’s easy to feel like a deer caught in the headlights. Temperatures are rising to unsustainable levels. Larger an...

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  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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A Poison Life No Other
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Mat Simon, Credit: Wired magazine
Our world is surrounded by microplastic pollution. It’s in the air we breathe. It’s in the food we eat. Our homes are among the most polluted place...

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
You Can’t Always Say What You Want: The Paradox of Free Speech
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dennis Baron
History shows us that freedom of speech is a fluid and evolving concept that requires continual defense. It’s always under threat. And it’s never a...

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  • Added: Nov 28, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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The Progress Illusion
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jon D. Erickson
It’s a fairytale we constantly hear. Growth always leads to prosperity. Logically that should mean that we have endless resources. In that case, wh...

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 28:59
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Solve Climate Change Now
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Don Maruska
The mere mention of climate change can cause an unpleasant, visceral reaction. It’s a subject that we’ve avoided and denied for decades. Understand...

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
End Kids Cancer
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Frank Kalman w/daughter Cali
Nearly 30-years ago the Committee on Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children released a new study. Not surprising, they found an abundance ...

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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A Woman's Life is a Human Life
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Felicia Kornbluh
Some now refer to a post-Roe reality. What they’re saying is the battle for reproductive rights has shifted back to individual states. Déjà vu. Al...

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  • Added: Jan 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
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Preparing for War
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Brad Onishi
The riot at the US Capitol in January 2021 was not a blip or an aberration. In the thinking of Dr. Bradley Onishi and others, it was the logical ou...

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  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
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Drawing Deportation
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Silvia Rodriguez Vega
Family separation. Deportation. Border crossing deaths. Profiling. Limited access to resources such as quality education and healthcare. All of the...

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  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
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Walk the Walk: How Three Police Chiefs Defied the Odds and Changed Cop Culture
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Walk the Walk
Policy change policing is critically important. But to fix policing, we need to change the culture. The culture surrounding law enforcement. The va...

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  • Added: Feb 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Myth
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Naomi Oreskes
The Chicago school of economics lead to the phrase, there’s magic in the market. But, that magic, for many of those who invest, means an unrestrict...

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  • Added: Feb 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
I Want a Better Catastrophe
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Andrew Boyd
The Paris Climate Accord set a benchmark 1.5 degrees centigrade warming limit. We didn’t reach that goal. Even the massive snow fall, wildfires, hu...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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How to Save Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Eli Merritt
We constantly hear that America’s democracy is in peril. Corruption is running amuck. Authoritarianism is on the rise. And very few in the hall of ...

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  • Added: Mar 14, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Climaturity
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Marc Cortez
The controversary surrounding climate change is frequently charged with emotion. It’s a challenge. If you believe the health of the planet is in da...

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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The IdeaSphere
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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Author Anne Riley is not about to be stereotyped. Although she is a successful fiction writer, she has branched out into science, philosophy and dr...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1

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