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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
Dr. Gregorio Gonzales: Race, Indigeneity, and Blackness in U.S. Borderlands
From: Generation Justice Admin
Caption: Dr. Gregorio Gonzales
How do Indigeneity and Blackness intersect? Learn from this lecture from the UNM Africana Studies "Cortez Williams Spring 2019 Lecture Series" with...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2019
  • Length: 37:47
The Ultimate Dunk
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Women in the Austin Music Scene
Caption: Kana Harris (right) interviewed in the Texas Folklife archive room
Punk Musician & Creator of Community Record Store, Kana Harris merges all. This story was produced by Mary Hollyman, Tony Plata, and Cynthia Luna w...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 15, 2019
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
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 Unvarnished, Unholy Tour of Franklin Avenue
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Tom LaBlanc leads the Unholy Tour along Minneapolis' Franklin Avenue in 2018., Credit: Mike Rivard
Tom LaBlanc joined the American Indian Movement in 1970, just two years after its founding. Today, he's still active, performing politically-inspir...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2018
  • Length: 04:52
Dip Deep - Civility part 1: History
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Dig Deep
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In this first conversation Chuck and Aaron take us back in history to yellow journalism and remind us that political bias and negative political ca...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2018
  • Length: 18:31
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
Episode 1: We The Purple
From: PurpleState
Series: PurpleState
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eTown’s PurpleState Episode 1, We the Purple, explores the structural, historical, and cultural forces that have contributed to political division ...

Bought by Angelica Community Radio and KVNF


  • Added: Oct 07, 2018
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 2
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
The Red Scare Next Door: Anti-Communism in Evansville, Indiana
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Bucyrus-Erie Strikers. Evansvillie, Indiana, 1948.
The “Red Scare,” often called McCarthyism, went much deeper than what was directed by Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy in the 1950s and had, even as ...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jul 30, 2018
  • Length: 58:22
  • Purchases: 1
A Targeted Divide: Gunning Down the Bill of Rights
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Michigan Liberty Militia Constitutional Enforcement rally Capitol Lansing MI March 24 2018., Credit: Photo by Theresa Rosado.
Today begins a series of three programs on guns in the USA: A Targeted Divide. Our first show is “Gunning Down the Bill of Rights,” how the 2nd Ame...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jul 04, 2018
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 1
John Locke
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What made Locke the Founding Fathers' favorite philosopher?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KSKQ, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jun 20, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 5
2024-02-11 Lincoln as a Philosopher
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What was Lincoln's basic philosophy, and did it change over the course of his Presidency?

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


  • Added: Jun 20, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 6
The Separation of Powers
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What are the philosophical arguments behind the separation of powers in the US constitution?

Bought by KMUN, KSKQ, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jun 20, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4