IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Series produced by Guy Rathbun
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.
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Whatever your spiritual path, chances are that the primary tenets of your faith include universal love, acceptance and compassion. Yet three thousa...
- Added: Jun 26, 2012
- Length: 28:55
Who were the mysterious Maya? Their predecessors were nomadic hunters. They followed game animals across the Bering Land Bridge, and populated the ...
- Added: Jun 18, 2012
- Length: 27:00
Mention healthcare, and most folks think insurance. But, one of the lesser known crises is patient safety. On average, each hospital patient has on...
- Added: Jun 12, 2012
- Length: 28:57
The Father of India was dead. Killed by a man he’d known for years. The year was 1948, the dawn of India’s independence from Great Britain. In his...
- Added: Jun 05, 2012
- Length: 28:52
What are your feelings about the Affordable Health Care Act? “Obamacare” as it’s become known. Few issues are receiving more attention today than...
- Added: May 30, 2012
- Length: 29:00
What are your thoughts about immigration? After listening to this interview, leave me a comment.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in State of...
- Added: May 23, 2012
- Length: 28:30
In the past dozen years, from Y2K to 2012, apocalyptic anticipation in America has leapt from the cultish to the mainstream. Today, nearly 60 perce...
- Added: May 14, 2012
- Length: 28:59
While teaching at an all-black middle school in Atlanta, Associate Professor of Education Meira Levinson realized that her students’ were gong to h...
- Added: May 08, 2012
- Length: 27:51
Pharmaceutical companies, according to Dr. David Healy, have hijacked healthcare in America, and the results are life threatening. Healy looks at t...
- Added: May 01, 2012
- Length: 29:00
From Wendell Potter’s Blog: “Since I walked away as head of communications at a top health insurance company in May of 2008, I've worked tirelessly...
- Added: Apr 25, 2012
- Length: 28:50
In its 2001 report on global climate, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations prominently featured the “Hockey Stick,” ...
- Added: Apr 17, 2012
- Length: 28:59
Into the national conversation about climate change and our planet's natural resources comes The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing About ...
- Added: Apr 10, 2012
- Length: 28:40
Recent controversies surroundings reproductive health issues have sparked outrage among across the country. From the halls of Congress, to Richmon...
- Added: Apr 03, 2012
- Length: 28:54
While attacks from the right on President Obama and his administration have been unrelenting, progressives have not shrunk from harsh words for a p...
- Added: Mar 30, 2012
- Length: 28:57
If one truly believes that all wealth derives from the heroic efforts of job creators and individual business leaders, it follows that government c...
- Added: Mar 20, 2012
- Length: 28:58
American's long-term savings in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, pension funds and life insurance funds total about $30 trillion. But not even 1% of th...
- Added: Mar 14, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Capital Village near Sacramento is an ideal case study for future communities.
- Added: Mar 09, 2012
- Length: 28:59
UN nuclear inspectors visited Iran to once again try to determine if Iran's civilian nuclear program is indeed a cover for weapons development, how...
- Added: Feb 28, 2012
- Length: 29:00
The Movement to Overturn Citizens United: Common Cause spokesman Douglas Clopp provides a compelling overview of the efforts to wrest control of Am...
- Added: Feb 21, 2012
- Length: 28:59
On Monday, February 13, President Obama sent to Congress the 2013 U.S. Defense budget the includes funding for a shift in strategic focus to the As...
- Added: Feb 14, 2012
- Length: 28:59
