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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Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Steve Almond
You've heard part of this story on two NPR shows. Here is an extended interview: Football is not good for us, Steve Almond concludes, it’s not goo...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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Capitalism v Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Timothy K. Kuhner, Credit: Georgia State University
As of the latest national elections, it costs approximately $1 billion to become president, $10 million to become a Senator, and $1 million to beco...

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  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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Dollar Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Peter Matthews
Big corporations and their super wealthy owners have bought many American politicians through campaign contributions and lobbying, according to pol...

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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Soldier Girls
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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Writer Helen Thorpe provides a detailed account of what happened to the three women who served in the military during the last decade.

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  • Added: Aug 05, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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Tomlinson Hiil
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Chris Tomlinson
After spending eleven years in Africa as bureau chief for The Associated Press, Chris Tomlinson returned home to Texas. Seeing oppression and apart...

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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The Kidney Sellers
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Sigrid Fry-Revere
America has a shortage of organs for transplant. Iran has abundance. That’s the reason many wealthy American’s turn to Iran for help when they’re s...

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  • Added: Jul 23, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Honest Medicine
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Julia Schopick
Author Julia Schopick introduces four lifesaving treatments that have been effectively treating, and in some cases curing, people for 25 to 90 year...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
STAY: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jennifer Michael Hecht
In a position that some will find controversial, Jennifer Michael Hecht argues that suicide is quite simply wrong, from a secular point of view. To...

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  • Added: Jul 10, 2014
  • Length: 28:45
  • Purchases: 2
Juvenile Incarceration
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Nell Bernstein, Credit: NPR
In her new book, award winner journalist Nell Bernstein takes us behind the scenes into the hidden lives of incarcerated children. She has spent mo...

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  • Added: Jul 02, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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Explosion Green
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: David Gottfried
When David Gottfried come up an idea for green environmental building 20-years ago, he ran into a number of hurdles. The building industry had been...

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fear & Learning in America
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: John Kuhn
There is a vast divide between those in the “education reform movement” and those who recognize the very real problem of inequality. School superin...

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  • Added: Jun 17, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
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Rogue Traders
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Scott E.D. Skyrm
When one of Wall Streets biggest scams was revealed in a segment on 60 Minutes, viewers were outraged. Front Running. Although it is legal, it’s, a...

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  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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Resister
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Bruce Dancis
Bruce Dancis arrived at Cornell University in 1965 as a youth who was no stranger to political action. He grew up in a radical household and took p...

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  • Added: May 30, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
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Red Devil 4
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Eric C. Leuthardt
The year is 2053. Neurosurgeon and scientist, Dr. Hagan Maerici, is to designing "neuromorphic artificial intelligence." This is the setting for Dr...

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  • Added: May 23, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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A Higher Call: Memorial Day Story
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Charlie Brown & Franz Stigler
On December 20, 1943, a severely damaged American bomber struggles in its flight over war-torn Germany. The 21-year-old pilot had his hands full wi...

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  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
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Heed Your Call
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: David M. Howitt
David M. Howitt is the founder and CEO of Merriweather Group, and he has guided the financial, strategic, brand, and marketing of companies ranging...

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  • Added: May 13, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Water Revolutiion
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Wade Graham
The Western United States has entered a very difficult drought season. Nevada’s water supply is in danger. Realistically California is not any bett...

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  • Added: Apr 29, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Citizens Congress 2014
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: William Ostrander
In 2010, the US Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting political donations. That is, so long as the...

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  • Added: Apr 27, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
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Missing Class
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Betsy Leondar-Wright
In Missing Class, Betsy Leondar-Wright looks at class dynamics in twenty-five groups of social movement organizations. Included in her study are; t...

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
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The Quest for the Historical Jesus
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Richard Carrier
Almost all experts agree that the Jesus of the Bible is a cmoposite of myth, legend, and some historical evidence. So what can we know of the rel J...

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  • Added: Apr 07, 2014
  • Length: 28:35
  • Purchases: 1

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