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The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry, by Constance and Ned Sublet, is an extensive accounting of American slavery, do...
Bought by WESM 91.3 FM
- Added: Jan 24, 2017
- Length: 58:11
- Purchases: 1
As President elect Trump orders China to cease "annexing" islands it claims as its own and cozies up to Taiwan, there seems now a real possibility ...
- Added: Jan 18, 2017
- Length: 04:50
Mongolia's religious preferences center around the Dalia Lama. China's don't. Mongolia invited the Dalia Lama to pay homage to his lineage, China s...
- Added: Jan 10, 2017
- Length: 04:49
We’ll look at three songs: “Strange Fruit” sung by Billie Holiday (and recently sampled by Kanye West); “We Almost Lost Detroit” by Gill Scott Hero...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Jan 03, 2017
- Length: 55:38
- Purchases: 2
The Dalai Lama will not be invited to Mongolia again after the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader's recent trip there angered China, which considers h...
- Added: Jan 02, 2017
- Length: 04:41
Meghan Murphy, the founder and editor of the online feminist media outlet Feminist Current, will lead us through the re-radicalizing of feminism: s...
- Added: Dec 27, 2016
- Length: 56:47
An underwater research drone was seized by China as an American crew was moving in to retrieve it. The episode threatens to increase tensions in a ...
- Added: Dec 20, 2016
- Length: 04:49
Assuming the next president has no ability, vision, or desire to combat the staggering inequality of our new “gilded age,” we’re left with the ques...
- Added: Dec 20, 2016
- Length: 58:01
Mary Shelley’s novel of 1818, Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus, seems to me to clang like a hammer blow against a bell that tolls our self-i...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Dec 19, 2016
- Length: 01:00:01
- Purchases: 1
President-elect Donald Trump's telephone conversation with Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-Wen, broke 4 decades of U.S./Taiwan diplomatic protocol, enr...
- Added: Dec 12, 2016
- Length: 04:48
What is the legacy of this history? We are witnessing this dismissive denigration and abuse of people right now, it’s not 1616 or 1816 but 2016…and...
Bought by KMUD
- Added: Dec 06, 2016
- Length: 58:15
- Purchases: 1
Conventional Wisdom says the Industrial Revolution passed China by. But is this a true interpretation of history?
- Added: Nov 28, 2016
- Length: 04:47
Happiness. We all want it. But what can that word mean? What do we imagine we’re seeking as we spend much of our time and effort in pursuit of happ...
- Added: Nov 15, 2016
- Length: 58:01
Free speech is not the norm, and even in a country that explicitly protects speech in its foundational documents, censorship can still creep into o...
- Added: Nov 08, 2016
- Length: 58:45
First corporations became people. Now people are becoming businesses. That’s the logic of the marketplace applied to employment. Tonight, the third...
- Added: Nov 01, 2016
- Length: 57:51
President Duterte of the Philippines traveled to Japan last week, he talked to God on the way back and the U.S. is as confused as ever about where ...
- Added: Oct 30, 2016
- Length: 04:50
The Philippines is America's oldest treaty ally in Asia. Its bases and ports are key building blocks in the United States attempt to encircle China...
- Added: Oct 22, 2016
- Length: 04:49
WFHB’s longest-running public affairs program, Interchange, wants to talk about everything, any topic, in a desire to make connections across the c...
- Added: Sep 06, 2016
- Length: 57:11
Our program is a conversation with Colin Dayan, author most recently of two lauded books, With Dogs at the Edge of Life and The Law Is a White Dog....
- Added: Jul 12, 2016
- Length: 58:05
Every immigrant has a coming to the America memory. Nayomi Munaweera came to America when she was 12. It was the mid eighties. And Duran Duran.....
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 12, 2016
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 2
Our guest is Paul Buhle, one of the foremost historians of American Radicalism and the American Left having authored or edited over 30 books, inclu...
- Added: Jun 14, 2016
- Length: 59:36
What may seem surprising as you listen is the way in which Thoreau’s understanding of death and life can inform our own considerations of what it m...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Jun 07, 2016
- Length: 59:14
- Purchases: 1
A new book, False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton, offers a detailed look at Hillary Clinton’s track record on welfare, Wall S...
Bought by WRGY
- Added: May 31, 2016
- Length: 59:37
- Purchases: 1
How can you, the citizen, with your “one vote,” compete against a system where all the pulleys and levers are greased by graft? Wendell Potter ackn...
- Added: May 31, 2016
- Length: 59:00
Jill Lepore joins us to talk about three books: The Story of America; The Secret History of Wonder Woman; and Joe Gould's Teeth.
- Added: Mar 29, 2016
- Length: 01:03:04
