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Ken Stern on hate & anti-Semitism
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week's guest is Ken Stern, director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate. He's also an award winning author, scholar and attorney. Ken has...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 25, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Patriarchy Trap
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Can a crisis of masculinity explain why men are falling behind?

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
What ISIS Can Teach Us About Drone Warfare in Ukraine
From: Mateo Schimpf
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What does accountability look like in the age of remote warfare?

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Zero Sum, Zero Change: What Racism Costs Everyone
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this week’s episode of World Affairs, Ray examines the legacy and lived-reality of zero-sum economics at home and abroad.

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Price Shock: The World Economy, Upside Down
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In light of rising inflation, we revisit a conversation with filmmaker Rupert Russell about his book and film, “Price Wars: How the Commodities Mar...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jun 30, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Can China Erase History in Hong Kong
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week's episode, we hear about the various ways that Beijing is tightening the screws on Hong Kong's freedom of expression, speech, and press.

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, WEKU, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Apr 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
How Commodity Traders Cause Global Chaos
From: Mateo Schimpf
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WorldAffairs host Ray Suarez talks with Rupert Russell about his new book and film, “Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World.”

Bought by WMUU-LP, Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Feb 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Is the United Nations Still Relevant?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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We look at the UN’s achievements, its shortcomings and what the future holds for international cooperation.

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Canada’s Fight for Truth and Reconciliation
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we look at Canada’s journey towards truth and reconciliation with its native people.

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge, and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 14, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
A Perfect Storm for Depression
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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All across the country, life is inching towards a pre-pandemic normal, but the mental health impact of the pandemic will cast a long shadow. This s...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2021
  • Length: 04:26
A More Contagious and Virulent Variant
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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This winter a new, more contagious variant of SARS-CoV-2 arose in the United Kingdom: B.1.1.7. The CDC estimates that this will become the dominant...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2021
  • Length: 04:13
The Big Pond #46: Black Art, Berlin Stories – Looking for Alain Locke
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In 1925, the African-American philosopher Alain Locke (1886-1954) launched a revolutionary black arts movement now known as the Harlem Renaissance....

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO


  • Added: Sep 18, 2019
  • Length: 34:12
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #37: 100 Years of the Bauhaus
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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The Bauhaus school of art, architecture and design was founded in 1919 and lasted for only 14 years before the Nazis forced it to close in 1933. An...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 17, 2019
  • Length: 25:09
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #36: Luftbrücke – 70 Years of Memories
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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On June 24, 1948, the Soviet military administration officially cut off roads and rails into West Berlin in the Berlin Blockade, isolating it from ...

Bought by KWMR, KICI Iowa City, and Morton College Radio


  • Added: Jul 10, 2019
  • Length: 19:21
  • Purchases: 3
Horton vs. Jones Case on Electronic Wills
From: The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
Series: ACTEC Trust and Estate Talk
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Can a person create a valid will that is not formally executed as required by state law? Find out more about electronic wills through discussion of...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2019
  • Length: 08:32
Introducing a Business Consultant to a Client Family
From: The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
Series: ACTEC Trust and Estate Talk
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A best practice discussion of how to introduce a client to a new consultant, B2B introduction, by experts in trust and estate law.

  • Added: Mar 18, 2019
  • Length: 13:42
Water in Desert Soil
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
Series: Science Moab
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Deserts are characterized by having limited amounts of water. The plants that live in these dry climates are there because the soil holds onto just...

Bought by KDXI - Radio St George and KRZA


  • Added: Feb 17, 2019
  • Length: 25:00
  • Purchases: 2
Lending in the Probate Context
From: The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
Series: ACTEC Trust and Estate Talk
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What is probate lending and why you should consider including a spendthrift clause in a will is discussed by ACTEC Fellow Professor David Horton.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2018
  • Length: 06:57
Alzheimer's Disease: A Psychiatrist's Personal Perspective -- Parts One & Two
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with clinical psychiatrist, Dr. Betty J. Lacy, whose focus is the prevention, care and treatment of dementia, including Alzh...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2017
  • Length: 58:02
Ixcanul
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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Watching a Guatemalan film is not an everyday event here in the States, much less one whose dialogue is primarily in Kaqchikel, a Maya Indian langu...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:50
In San Francisco, rent control gets personal
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Apartments in San Francisco, Credit: (wallyg/flickr)
Rent control has been a way for cities to regulate their housing prices and evictions since World War One, in the wake of a big housing shortage in...

  • Added: May 17, 2014
  • Length: 05:13
Episode 1 ~ Music in Video Games
From: Matthew Mustovich
Series: The Art of Video Game Design
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The importance of music in video games is discussed with local composer, John Hoge.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Mar 09, 2014
  • Length: 07:23
  • Purchases: 1
Understanding our Collective Unconscious
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious brings you an archived, 2-part conversation about the collective unconscious and people’s living and consumption habits with Dr. Clot...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2012
  • Length: 58:03
The Art of Eric Stone
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of Art Beat we visit with Eric Stone a scenic designer for The Great River Shakespeare Festival Season 9 in Winona MN. Eric has des...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jun 20, 2012
  • Length: 26:47
  • Purchases: 1
Mexico’s Drug War: The Politics of Violence
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Javier Sicilia in 2011, Credit: Flickr user: sarihuella
On this edition, political science professor David Shirk sheds light on the history and politics of the war on drugs in Mexico. And an emerging mov...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KRZA


  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2