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Regardless of your politics, regardless of her politics, it’s hard to argue that Hillary Clinton hasn’t been on the receiving end of a constant and...
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 01:28:01
Kate Millett’s 1970 book, Sexual Politics, is a classic text of Second Wave Feminism, finding sexism and subjection inherent in the institutions of...
- Added: May 30, 2017
- Length: 58:00
We’re joined by guitarist, producer, composer and author Dave Randall. His book, Sound System, newly out from Pluto Press, is an insider’s view of ...
- Added: May 23, 2017
- Length: 01:28:01
Margaret Atwood’s response to those who might object to the assertion that the dystopian catastrophe of The Handmaid’s Tale cannot happen here. “Wa...
- Added: May 10, 2017
- Length: 57:38
Today’s show is about for-profit colleges and universities–or the Predatory Education Business. If you’re surprised to hear predatory and for-profi...
- Added: May 10, 2017
- Length: 58:13
Direct action and reform politics meet in Apartheid South Africa in playwright Athol Fugard’s 1989 play My Children! My Africa! Within the ruling c...
- Added: Apr 25, 2017
- Length: 58:00
How closely does the story of climate denial mirror the story of tobacco denial? For decades, cigarette makers downplayed the dangers of smoking wi...
Bought by KZYX, KCMJ Community Radio, and KRZA
- Added: Apr 03, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
An information war is raging in our country, in both mainstream news and on social media. The news media has been struggling with how to handle the...
- Added: Mar 13, 2017
- Length: 58:59
Today, we’ll take a look at the development and destruction of Black Populism in the post-bellum South, discovering the strategies, institutions, a...
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Feb 22, 2017
- Length: 58:02
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of Overheard, two Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historians.
First Doris Kearns Goodwin on Teddy Roosevelt followed by Jon Me...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Feb 21, 2017
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
Today our guest, Thea Riofrancos, suggests populism is the not the problem, as so many in the “center” (left and right) fear, but the answer to the...
- Added: Feb 14, 2017
- Length: 58:01
Nik Nerburn grew up in northern Minnesota and is working as a photojournalist and documentary filmmaker. He recently covered the presidential inau...
- Added: Feb 10, 2017
- Length: 09:41
Our latest President tweets out “policy” and executive orders and his national security advice is coming from Breitbart blogger, Steve Bannon. The ...
- Added: Jan 31, 2017
- Length: 58:02
- Purchases: 2
What’s the future for California with a Donald Trump White House? The country's biggest and bluest state is at odds with the emerging administrati...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 59:00
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
He straddles the more essential American Century, from the failure of Reconstruction to the March on Washington, not demarcated by round numbers an...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WCPN
- Added: Dec 01, 2016
- Length: 58:03
- Purchases: 2
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
Just a moment of watching the daily activities of our national public life reveals that ‘performance’ is consequential — far beyond the confines of...
- Added: Aug 30, 2016
- Length: 57:27
For “Unfounded America” we’re joined by Nancy Isenberg of the popular and provocative new book, White Trash: The 400-year Untold Story of Class in ...
Bought by WESM 91.3 FM
- Added: Aug 09, 2016
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 1
Taelyn Reid from Young Women United talks about "Gen Z-Vote", a youth-led initiative to bring voting information to young New Mexican voters. Inter...
- Added: Aug 04, 2016
- Length: 09:25
Maria Alyokhina talks about political art, Pussy Riot, Hannah Arendt, and working with Belarus Free Theatre.
- Added: Jul 28, 2016
- Length: 06:53
For “Lynchings on Loop” Courtney Baker, author of Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death joins us to talk about ...
Bought by WESM 91.3 FM
- Added: Jul 26, 2016
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 1
As a photographer for Life and Fortune magazines, Margaret Bourke-White traveled to Russia in the 1930s, photographed the Nazi takeover of Czechosl...
- Added: Jul 26, 2016
- Length: 56:31
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
