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2022-12-25 How Relevant Is Jesus?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Can we know anything about Jesus' views on contemporary moral issues?

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  • Added: Dec 26, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
North Carolina: Courageous Conversations in a Climate of Fear
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Many questions remain about the recent attack on North Carolina’s electrical grid, which left tens of thousands of citizens unsettled, frightened a...

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  • Added: Dec 14, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
2022-10-16 Liberty and Justice For Who?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How could a "pro-freedom" philosophy be used to deprive people around the world of the right to self-government?

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  • Added: Oct 17, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
2022-10-09 Is the Self an Illusion?
From: Philosophy Talk
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Is the self just a fiction we create to make sense of a complicated world?

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  • Added: Oct 10, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
2022-09-25 Martin Heidegger
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Can Heidegger's contributions to Western philosophy and be reconciled with his active support for the German Nazi party?

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
A.M. Homes: “The Unfolding” of American Democracy
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Salman Rushdie praised A.M. Homes’ latest novel, The Unfolding as, “A terrific black comedy, written almost entirely in pitch-perfect dialogue, tha...

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
2022-07-17 Walter Benjamin and the Re-Enchanted World
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Can we find enchantment without sacrificing reason?

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Past American Voice of novelist E.L. Doctorow
From: New Letters on the Air
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E.L. Doctorow passed away in July 2015, but left behind twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction, and a stage drama, winning most of the major...

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  • Added: Jul 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
2022-06-28 Leibniz
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What made Gottfried Leibniz the last so-called "universal genius?"

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  • Added: Jun 27, 2022
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 5
2022-06-19 The Changing Face of Antisemitism
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Where did antisemitism come from—is it racism? Religious bigotry? Something else?

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  • Added: Jun 20, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
2225: The Changing Face of Antisemitism, 6/21/2022
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Where did antisemitism come from—is it racism? Religious bigotry? Something else?

  • Added: Jun 14, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
2022-06-12 Jean-Paul Sartre
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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The father of Existentialism was born on June 21, 1905.

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  • Added: Jun 13, 2022
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 5
2022-05-15 J.S. Mill and the Good Life
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Philosopher, political economist, and civil servant John Stuart Mill was born May 20, 1806.

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  • Added: May 16, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
Lisa Graves: The Extremist Revolution & Democracy Hanging by a Thread
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The American Right is embracing a dangerous extremism, challenging elections, packing courts and aligning with Hungarian prime minister and Putin-a...

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  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
2022-04-03 The Doomsday Doctrine
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How do we justify keeping so many nuclear weapons—and continually threatening to use them?

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Women's History Month: Changing the Narrative, Women War and Peace II
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Making the future while surviving a war. In humanity’s never ending war stories, combat makes the news, but the macho gaze misses the complex reali...

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Women's History Month: Indigenous Women and Leaders’ Lessons on Community Care, a Tipi Town Approach
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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On Indigenous Peoples' Day, Laura reports from “He Sapa‘’, the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota where NDN Collective is reclaiming ancestral land...

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  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Women's History Month: Women's Choice is More Than Roe vs Wade
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn Roe v Wade, imperiling all women’s freedoms, and creating a new pipeline to prison for the vulnerabl...

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  • Added: Mar 09, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
John Muir in the Wild Desert
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Tonight we visit with the friendly ghost of John Muir, specifically regarding his many excursions in the California deserts. New soundscapes by Red...

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  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
220219 Beatles and Bonaparte's Retreat, Bands Named "The Monarchs," and James Pagliasotti's book; What It Was; Growing Up When The Music Mattered.
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Monarchs
We feature the first rock and roll songs that you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of because public radio can ignore the overwhelmin...

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  • Added: Feb 14, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:01
  • Purchases: 5
Nasruddin & Other Holy Fools
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Back from our brief convalescence to bring you desert prayers in the night — Ancient Egyptian prayers & psalms, in this case. And some tales of Mul...

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  • Added: Feb 11, 2022
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
Imani Perry: The Future of Democracy Depends on the South
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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As goes the South, so goes the nation. It may be a cliché but according to this week’s guest it’s true. In South to America: A Journey Below the Ma...

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Their name was Pauli Murray
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Pauli Murray circa 1931, age 21, Credit: Courtesy of Amazon Studios
Pauli Murray was a 20th century Black Queer civil rights trailblazer and legal scholar you’ve probably never heard of. On this edition of Out in th...

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  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 4

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