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.


559 Pieces

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Papa and Me
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Catherine Mich
Fifty years ago, on September 29, 1963, Pope John XXIII opened the second working section of The Second Vatican Council and asserted its agenda to ...

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  • Added: Jun 18, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
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Call to Witness
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Sherry Blackman
Author Sherry Blackman bring to life the vivid tale of a young wife and mother who awoke one day unable to feel her own body. Despite Jane Gagliard...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
Cows Save the Planet
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Judith D. Swartz
In her new book, author and journalist Judith D. Swartz reveals that our ability to transform many of our problems – climate change, desertificatio...

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  • Added: Jun 11, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
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Beautiful Business
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Judy Wicks
Judy Wicks founded the White dog Café on the first floor of her house in West Philadelphia. After helping to save her block from demolition, Judy g...

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  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
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11 Days in May
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: J.D. Messinger
J.D. Messinger’s first book is the story of his quest to answer the great questions philosophers and theologians have asked for millennium: who am ...

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  • Added: May 30, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
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What Then Must We Do?
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Chelsea Green jacket cover
In his new book, economist Gar Alperovitz speaks plainly about why the time is right to democratize the ownership of wealth as a way to strengthen ...

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  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
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Vintage Tomorrow's
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Vintage Tomorrow's jacket cover, Credit: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
The late 19th century was an age of rapid technological change. It’s happening again today. Through interviews with experts such as Willaim Gibson,...

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  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Philadelphia Chromosome
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jessica Wapner
Jessica Wapner, freelance journalist, open her book in 1959 when a chromosomal mutation, christened “the Philadelphia Chromosome.” Was discovered. ...

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  • Added: May 08, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
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Constitutional Myths
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ray Raphael
By entering the world of the Constitution’s framers, and experiencing it one day after the next as they did, constitutional scholar Ray Raphael hel...

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  • Added: Apr 30, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
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Dollars and Sex
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Marina Adshade
Dr. Marina Adshade provides a fascinating look at just how central the interplay of libido, gender, love, power and economic forces is to the most ...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Earth Day 2013
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Frances Moore Lappe
Author Frances Moore Lappe describes herself as a “possibilist” rather than an optimist or pessimist. In her recent book, she argues that solutions...

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  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
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The Hormone Cure
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Sara Gottfried
Despite what women are constantly told by their doctors and society – that weight gain, sleeplessness, diminished sex drive, hair loss and wrinkles...

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  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
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The Food Shed
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Eric Toensmeier
This first part of this half-hour is spent with author and professor Philip Ackerman-Leist. In his new book, he shows that people are turning to lo...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
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Beyond the Checklist
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Suzanne Gordon
Lives could be saved and patient care enhanced by adapting the relevant lessons of aviation safety and teamwork. This is the premise of Suzanne Go...

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  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Sacred Acts (Pledge Drive)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Mallory McDuff
Churches are taking diverse actions to address climate change through stewardship, advocacy, spirituality and justice. Contributions from leading C...

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2013
  • Length: 19:57
  • Purchases: 1
Racial Innocence (Pledge Drive)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Robin Bernstein
Professor Robin Bernstein: Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights.

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  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 19:59
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Sustaining Activism
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Emma Sokoloff-Rubin & friends
This is the story of a father-daughter research team who spent 10-years studying the Brazilian Women’s Movement of the 1980s.

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
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Priests of Our Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Marjorie Heins, Credit: photo by Catherine Boalch
In her new book, civil liberties lawyer Majorie Heins tells the stories of teachers and professors who resisted the communist witch hunt of the 195...

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  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
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Rethinking Money
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jacqui Dunne & Bernard Lietaer
Our worldwide monetary system is outdated. That’s the claim from international monetary expert Bernard Lietaer and award winning journalist Jacqui ...

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  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 28:56
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Arrested Justice
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Beth E. Richie
In her new book, Professor Beth E. Richie addresses the issue of marginalized communities throughout America, and the unique risk they harbor for B...

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1

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