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This hour we sit with Lydia Davis as she reads her beautifully honed, firecracker prose. She writes in the company of Montaigne, Emerson, Proust, B...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jan 27, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Sasha Abramsky, a California-based journalist and author, explains why the recent measure to legalize marijuana in California, which polls showed m...
- Added: Jan 26, 2011
- Length: 38:22
We're talking with the Pakistani journalist Najam Sethi and the fictionist Daniyal Mueenuddin. With both the underlying supposition is that it's Pa...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KXOT Public Radio
- Added: Jan 20, 2011
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 2
Open Source is in New Delhi with two stars of the writing class. Namita Gokhale is a novelist, publisher, and sparkplug of the Indian literary boom...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 13, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
This hour brings politics with Chris Hedges and poetry with Damion Searls. Chris Hedges' new book recounts The Death of the Liberal Class. And the ...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KXOT Public Radio
- Added: Dec 23, 2010
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 3
From courtroom battles to government regulation, we take a look at how citizen groups around the world are holding oil companies accountable for en...
- Added: Dec 07, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Genetically engineered plants. Big box stores. Social-security privatization. Animal factory farms. Attorney Thomas Linzey says that the force behi...
Bought by Panhandle Community Radio and KPVL
- Added: Dec 03, 2010
- Length: 28:28
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Dec 03, 2010
- Length: 29:00
We hear about an American soldier missing in action.
- Added: Dec 03, 2010
- Length: 09:12
A special coverage of "The Border Mass" a celebration of those immigrants who lost their lives crossing the border.
- Added: Dec 01, 2010
- Length: 28:10
- Purchases: 2
We're talking politics and poetry with Noam Chomsky and C.D. Wright. Noam Chomsky is on an upbeat about American views on war and imperialism, and ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and Wyoming Public Radio
- Added: Nov 04, 2010
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
Harvard professor Ogletree speaks about his book, The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in Ameri...
- Added: Oct 28, 2010
- Length: 29:00
Election day is closing in, and Jill Lepore has a hip historian's take on the question: What Would the Founding Fathers Do? Jill Lepore says there'...
- Added: Oct 28, 2010
- Length: 58:59
From Don't Ask, Don't Tell 10/08/2010: War News Radio reports on opponents of the US military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.
- Added: Oct 08, 2010
- Length: 05:55
- Added: Oct 08, 2010
- Length: 29:02
This week the conversation moves from Kabul to Paris, as we talk with John Mearsheimer, the foreign policy "realist" from the University of Chicago...
Bought by WMNF, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Oct 07, 2010
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 3
The growth in national security measures since 9/11 is striking. Is this level of government investment worthwhile? Can there ever be too much secu...
- Added: Sep 27, 2010
- Length: 02:00
How do you choose missions to fight a war effectively, while minimizing civilian deaths and meeting the obligation to your soldiers?
- Added: Sep 27, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Must governments meet violence with an authoritarian response? In the recent Mexican election, citizens could demand a crackdown on druglords at th...
- Added: Sep 27, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Does the state capitalism model present a challenge to free market political systems? Is Google's confrontation with China a taste of the future? W...
- Added: Sep 27, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Can you hold to ethical standards and serve a government that makes mistakes? Does becoming a diplomat mean, "my country right or wrong"?
- Added: Sep 27, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Inequality in America has been accelerating rapidly since the 1980s. But capping income levels could put liberty and competitiveness at risk. Regar...
- Added: Sep 27, 2010
- Length: 02:00
After the news that the Senate had not passed legislation to end "don't ask don't tell," commentator Mark Blackmon decided that it was time to remi...
- Added: Sep 23, 2010
- Length: 04:08
This week we're talking with the soldier-turned-author of Washington Rules, Andrew Bacevich. Then we sit down at the piano with the jazz improv sta...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Sep 23, 2010
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
We hear about hip-hop and change in Cuban society, and what people on the ground are saying about new phases in the Cuban revolution.
- Added: Sep 21, 2010
- Length: 30:00
