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2022-05-22 The Allure of Autoritarianism
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Democracy may not be in great shape, but why would anyone prefer to be ruled by a despot?

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  • Added: May 23, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
2022-04-24 Explantation at Its Best
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is the most elegant explanation always the best one?

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  • Added: Apr 25, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
2023-03-12 #MeToo: Retribution, Accountability, and Justice
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is trial by Twitter mob a substitute for justice?

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  • Added: Mar 07, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
2022-02-13 Polyamory
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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We don't have only one friend at a time, so why have only one lover at a time?

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  • Added: Feb 14, 2022
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 10
2022-01-16 The Art of Non-Violence
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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In a violent world, what can nonviolence really achieve?

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  • Added: Jan 15, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
2021-10-03 Immigration and Multiculturalism
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Should ethnic or cultural identity ever be considered in any country’s immigration policy?

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  • Added: Oct 04, 2021
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
2021-08-22 Envy: Vice or Virtue?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is it irrational to want to be better than you are?

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  • Added: Aug 23, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
2021-06-27 Does Reputation Matter?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Should we care about what other people think of us?

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  • Added: Jun 28, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
2021-06-13 Can Reason Save Us?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Are we really living in an age of progress?

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  • Added: Jun 14, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
2021-02-19 Climate Narratives with Elizabeth Kolbert and Kim Stanley Robinson
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In the past decade, narratives of a dystopian climate future have helped connect people with heroes in worlds decimated by climate disruption and i...

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
210219: Climate Narratives with Elizabeth Kolbert and Kim Stanley Robinson, 2/19/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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In the past decade, narratives of a dystopian climate future have helped connect people with heroes in worlds decimated by climate disruption and i...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
2020-12-27 The Examined Year: 2020
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What (didn't) happen this past year to challenge our assumption and make us think about things in new ways?

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  • Added: Dec 03, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
2020-07-12 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 12, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
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2020-06-07 White Privilege and Racial Injustice
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is it a privilege or a right to be treated as you deserve to be?

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 12
Education and the Culture Wars
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How should we reconcile conflicts between the state’s responsibility to properly educate minors and the parents’ rights to influence their children...

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  • Added: Aug 15, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
2021-04-18 The Ethics of Algorithms
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Would you trust your life to an algorithm?

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Many Millennials Don't Seem to Care About Data Breaches
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
Caption: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before House Energy and Commerce hearing on Capitol Hill, Credit: (c) AP Images
Recent data breaches hitting big companies such as Facebook have cause people to go into a frenzy. However, the generation that goes online the mos...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 03:38
Blade Runner & Blade Runner 2049
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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This last year saw the release of Blade Runner 2049, a sequel to the 1982 science fiction classic Blade Runner. It’s rather unusual for a sequel to...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2018
  • Length: 04:40
Faces Places
From: KXCI
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The French director Agnès Varda has been making films for over sixty years, in both fiction and non-fiction form, and she has truly become one of t...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 04:08
The Florida Project
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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The Florida Project is a film of rootlessness and dysfunction, so unusual that nothing could have prepared me for its kind of honesty.

  • Added: Dec 09, 2017
  • Length: 04:31
Muslim Terrorists in Hollywood
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Youth Radio Vermont
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Palestinian American Muhaideen Batah paid a visit to Ms. Toland?s World History class. He spoke about Islam, and in this piece he talks about how M...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2008
  • Length: 02:49
Full Frontal Fascism
From: Voices of Our World
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Christian Conservatives see their traditional values in danger of being erased by countless waves of immigrants, gays, and liberals, they have been...

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  • Added: Jan 31, 2007
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
Too Much TV?
From: Youth Spin - KOOP 91.7 FM
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Why do we love TV so much? Why do we watch the shows we watch? Why do we spend so much time watching TV? And could our ever-increasing TV time be s...

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2006
  • Length: 02:54
  • Purchases: 3