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From 1933 until the end of World War II, a number of Nazi units known as the Kuntschutz, plundered gold, silver and important art works from all ov...
- Added: Apr 25, 2018
- Length: 58:37
Will Davies, author of the Happiness Industry, has written in the London Review of Books that “Destroying privacy in ever more adventurous ways is ...
- Added: Apr 17, 2018
- Length: 58:18
The public University as we know it is in crisis, as business prerogatives overtake its values and executive-style leadership eats away at its budg...
- Added: Apr 10, 2018
- Length: 58:01
Our show today is Anarchy is Intersectional: Learning from Emma Goldman. Goldman, a feminist anarchist, was disdainful of what is now called “Lean ...
Bought by KBBI Alaska and KZYX
- Added: Apr 03, 2018
- Length: 58:46
- Purchases: 2
Across the globe it was a year of countless uprisings. In the US it was the year of police violence against protesters at the Chicago Democratic Co...
- Added: Jan 31, 2018
- Length: 58:56
Elizabeth Anderson joins us to talk about her book Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It). In many workp...
- Added: Jan 23, 2018
- Length: 58:00
Dance in Chains, traces the history of modern political imprisonment from its origins in the mid-nineteenth century and draws on examples from regi...
- Added: Jan 17, 2018
- Length: 59:28
Today’s show is kin to last week’s, Honey From a Weed…but instead of seeing the human as capable of flourishing in concert with the natural, in thi...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Dec 12, 2017
- Length: 58:55
- Purchases: 1
From within this crucible the revolutionary theorist, ruthless Red Army commander and plausible dictator in waiting, leader of the left opposition ...
- Added: Nov 07, 2017
- Length: 58:02
Hitler called him “half beast, half giant” and clearly saw a kind of reflection there. Kuromiya asserts that Stalin was a deeply singular personali...
- Added: Nov 01, 2017
- Length: 01:00:34
Today, the curious case of Benjamin Lay: Englishman, Quaker, cobbler, sailor, cultural shock firebrand, cave dweller, autodidact, animal liberation...
- Added: Oct 17, 2017
- Length: 58:10
Feminist writer, Zillah Eisenstein, author of "Feminism, Racism and the West" and "Manmade Breast Cancer" talks candidly about her personal struggl...
- Added: Sep 15, 2017
- Length: 29:00
From Katrina and Sandy to Harvey, Irma and José - how is climate change fueling these increasingly destructive hurricanes? Greg Dalton and his gues...
Bought by 'The Sea', KTSW 89.9, WDET Detroit Public Radio, KUHF, WGCU and more
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 10
The Dialectic of Sex is widely considered the most influential book of Second Wave Feminism. In it Firestone argues that the biological sexual dich...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Sep 12, 2017
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 1
The conviction of Alger Hiss for perjury in 1950, continues to define the terms of what it means to American. But the definition seems always profe...
Bought by Radio Catskill, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WRGY
- Added: Sep 05, 2017
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 3
The idea of what it means to be human is changing. With countless catastrophic events looming, from climate instability to biotechnology and wars o...
- Added: Aug 30, 2017
- Length: 58:01
José Martí, who would die in the Cuban Revolution against Spain at the age of 42, believed that knowledge and understanding was a collective constr...
- Added: Aug 22, 2017
- Length: 58:00
Today, we confront the boots on the ground with political scientist and author, Christopher Sebastian Parker, who, along with his research partner ...
- Added: Aug 22, 2017
- Length: 58:11
For this 90-minute special, our guest is Nancy MacLean, Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University and author of Democracy in Chains...
Bought by KTRT RADIO INC
- Added: Aug 22, 2017
- Length: 01:28:04
- Purchases: 1
Cynthia Wolfe joins us to discuss her “Platinum” ranked audio program “Nuclear Nightingales” which consists of readings from the oral history Voice...
- Added: Aug 04, 2017
- Length: 57:43
In our show today with Sara Farris we’ll ask, what’s behind the right-wing demand for women’s rights in the context of immigration (hint, it’s the ...
- Added: Jul 11, 2017
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 2
We talk with historian Timothy Snyder about his book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. The book is a kind of vaccine to inocul...
- Added: Jul 06, 2017
- Length: 01:58:02
In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. Or in oth...
Bought by XRAY.fm and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jun 27, 2017
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 2
Our primary task for this 90-minute Interchange, and it seems a kind of irony, is to find a way to define Democracy away from our current conceptio...
- Added: Jun 21, 2017
- Length: 01:29:01
The author has plenty to say about Washington and the day-to-day life of a senator, along with stories about growing up in Minnesota & his years on...
- Added: Jun 14, 2017
- Length: 09:48
