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2020-06-21 Jean-Paul Sartre
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What exactly is existentialism? How are we condemned to be free? And what’s so hellish about other people?

Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN, KSKQ, KNVC Carson City Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
2020-05-03 Machiavelli
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Was Machiavelli an unscrupulous theorist and advisor, or one of the most widely misunderstood political philosophers ever?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN, KSKQ, WFHB and more


  • Added: May 04, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 7
This is the kind of story that begins in a forest
From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy
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This is the kind of story that begins in a forest, on the traditional lands of the Duwamish and Coast Salish People, past and present. It’s a story...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Apr 16, 2020
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 1
Welcome to Growing Old
From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy
Caption: Growing Old
This is the kind of story that begins in a forest, on the traditional lands of the Duwamish and Coast Salish People, past and present. It’s a story...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2020
  • Length: :59
Keeping the Devil’s Company: How Neoliberalism Demonizes Us
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today Adam Kotsko tracks this totalizing worldview through the lens of political theology and demonstrates its parallels to Christianity, specifica...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
Cynical Extraction, Racial Liberalism, and Black Homeownership
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Starting with real estate reforms in the 1970s supposedly instituted to open a path to the American Dream for Black citizens, Keeanga-Yamahtta Tayl...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
2019-11-08 California’s Story: How Did It Get Here?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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California has long led the country in environmental action. It established strong automobile emission standards; it preserved fragile lands from d...

Bought by WJCT, WMUU-LP, WFHB, KBBI Alaska, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
191108: California’s Story: How Did It Get Here?, 11/8/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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California has long led the country in environmental action. It established strong automobile emission standards; it preserved fragile lands from d...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
Pathways to Planetary Sovereignty – Joel Wainwright on Climate Leviathan
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In the face of looming ecological catastrophe and extinction events, with the continuation of human life on Earth as "justification," there will li...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
Jewish Philosophy
From: Philosophy Talk
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Is Jewish philosophy more about Judaism or about universal philosophical issues?

Bought by KMUN, KSKQ, KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Living Deliberately: Laura Dassow Walls On The Whole Human Life of Thoreau
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In her biography, Henry David Thoreau: A Life, Laura Walls shows us a man deeply engaged with friends, relatives and neighbors, a man thoroughly of...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2019
  • Length: 58:55
Unmade in America: The Wages of Factory Work
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Conveyor belts in abandoned Wrigley gum factory.
Ranney’s day-to-day life on the factory floor is punctuated by spontaneous wildcat strikes over management abuses, an immigration raid, industrial ...

Bought by WCPN and WLPR


  • Added: Mar 26, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Voting for Revolution: Lenin At the Ballot Box
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today we explore the question, “Can Electoral politics lead the way to Revolution?," with August Nimtz.

  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
The Martyrdom of Francisco Ferrer: A Conversation with Mark Bray
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Engraving on marble reproduction of the painting of the execution of Francisco Ferrer, made by Flavio Costantini. Behind the soldiers, two monks, a bourgeois and a civil guard attend the execution.
Ferrer's Modern School was not new pedagogy. We have known its truths for as long as authorities have forced children into rows and rote learning, ...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 58:15
Down at the Old Schoolhouse
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Due to the government-shutdown emergency, your host was compelled to entertain an audience at the Old Schoolhouse Museum in 29 Palms.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Security Edge: Part Five of a Seven Part Series on the Ocean Edge
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Strait of Gibraltar from space, Credit: Wikipedia Commons
In this episode of World Ocean Radio we discuss the natural security provided by the ocean edge: the barrier effect of mangroves, beaches, cliffs, ...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2019
  • Length: 04:40
Strike Through the Mask: Labor Strikes Are Essential History
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: A strikers' orchestra in the occupied Flint GM plant.
Loomis focuses on the necessity of government supporting workers’ rights for there to be any Union movement. The state has to protect the worker an...

Bought by KZYX and KMUN


  • Added: Jan 23, 2019
  • Length: 59:15
  • Purchases: 2
The Military: What Is It Good For?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is the "citizen soldier" an outmoded concept of a bygone era?

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KMUN, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Big Oil, Mickey Mouse, and Fascism in Latin America: The Tango War
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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US oil barons chose Nazism over Mexican sovereignty; anti-Semite Henry Ford fails in the Amazon; the US State Dept formalizes political kidnapping;...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
The Judiciary in Democracy
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What is the role of an unelected judiciary in a democracy?

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio and KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Oct 20, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 2
Constitutional Cages: The Core of Civil Society?
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Private prisons in the South capitalized on the loophole in the 13th Amendment. In American Prison Shane Bauer takes us into Winn Correctional Cent...

Bought by WWNO


  • Added: Oct 17, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Undoing the Falsifications of History: A Crash Course with H. Bruce Franklin
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: April, 1967, Redwood City. Students picket at a napalm bomb factory. "The Harvey Richards Media Archive." © Paul Richards.
H. Bruce Franklin, was once a tugboat mate and then an Air Force navigator and intelligence officer. He is now and has been for more than half a ce...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
The Athlete as Philosopher
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Are sports a way to cultivate virtues like loyalty, collaboration, and discipline, or to indulge feelings of rivalry, tribalism, and obsession?

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KTSW 89.9, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KNVC Carson City Community Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 6
The Idea of the University
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is a university a research institute with students, or and educational institution with research around the edges – or something in between?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, WLPR , KNVC Carson City Community Radio, and KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Aug 15, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5