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White Christian Privilege
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Khyati Joshi
America holds the promise of religious freedom. The US is recognized as the most religiously diverse country in the world. In reality, though, Chri...

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  • Added: Oct 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
625: What Afghan Women Want You To Know / 626: More Than Just A Game, 10/2/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'What Afghan Women Want You to Know' - Teachers. Actors. Ancient rug weavers. Whisperers of forbidden poetry. The women of Afghanistan wa...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Edward J. Watts
We’re hearing a lot of rhetoric about the decline of American society. Politicians cloak themselves in the need for a renewal to an America of the ...

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  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Are We the 99%: The Occupy Movement, Feminism and Intersectionality
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Heather Hurwitz
The Occupy movement of 2011 was thought to be unified. Although it created a foundation for future actions, the movement did perpetuate status-quo ...

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Decolonizing Wealth
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Edgar Villanueva
Our world is out of balance. Systemic racism is an ever-present shame. If that’s not enough, the culprit of our imbalance is the foundational princ...

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  • Added: Sep 07, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Disasterology: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Climate Crisis
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Samantha Montano
By now, most people are waking up to the reality of climate change. Between fires and hurricanes, a large swath of our planet is becoming uninhabit...

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  • Added: Aug 31, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
OutCasting 0088 -- Using religion to discriminate against LGBTQ people -- part 13 of an in-depth exploration
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: Jennifer C. Pizer, OutCaster Isha, Credit: Jennifer Pizer image via Lambda Legal
The Fulton case: The Supreme Court unanimously agrees with a Catholic adoption agency’s claim of religious liberty claim to justify discrimination

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  • Added: Aug 30, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Coastal Landfills Are No Match for Rising Seas
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dave Lindorff
It’s no longer out of sight out of mind. Many of our landfills have become a public health hazard. That’s especially true of those near a body of w...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Disruption: Why Things Change
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: David Potter
Throughout history governments rise and fall with varying degrees of success and failure. Democracies are not immune. It’s entirely unpredictable. ...

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  • Added: Aug 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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All Societies Die
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Samuel Cohn
The adage: If one does not learn from the past, one is doomed to repeat it. Although that doesn’t mean people or their governments are going to rep...

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  • Added: Jul 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
2021-07-16 A Feminist Climate Renaissance
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Pathways for reducing carbon emissions include electrifying transportation and replacing fossil fuels with wind and solar power. But in this time o...

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  • Added: Jul 14, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
210716: A Feminist Climate Renaissance, 7/16/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Pathways for reducing carbon emissions include electrifying transportation and replacing fossil fuels with wind and solar power. But in this time o...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Queers in Comics: How are portrayals changing?
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Queer comic writer Gabby Rivera and artist Luciano Vecchio, Credit: Collage by Porfirio Rangel. Rivera photo courtesy of Giselle Flores; Vecchio photo courtesy of Luciano Vecchio
It's important for children and young adults to see images like themselves in media. Comics are increasingly popular and LGBTQ characters are poppi...

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  • Added: Jul 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Trans Medicine
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: stef m.shuster
If you think medical treatment for the trans gender population sounds like a straightforward, easily addressed protocol. It’s not. Even today it’s ...

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  • Added: Jul 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Rupert Thomson discusses his novel Never Anyone But You
From: New Letters on the Air
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British writer Rupert Thomson, whose 2021 book BARCELONA DREAMING is set just before the 2008 financial crash, often writes about tough times. He ...

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  • Added: Jul 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Extended Mind
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Annie Murphy Paul
If someone said to you, “You’re out of your mind,” you might feel insulted. On the other hand, you could take that as a compliment. Research is fin...

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  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
07-17: Backlash Moment: Converging at the Crossroads of Identity and Justice, 6/30/2021
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Kimberle Crenshaw (foreground) with Eve Ensler
When Donald Trump rode a wave of white anxiety into the White House, it was part of a backlash to the Obama presidency, one that revealed an increa...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
Period: End of Sentence
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Anita Diamant
When the book, Period: End of Sentence was brought to my attention, my first response was that this is a discussion between women. I have no busine...

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  • Added: Jun 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Hype
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Gabrielle Bluestone
Satirist Andy Borowitz had an article in a recent New Yorker titled, Earth Endangered by New Strain of Fact-Resistant Humans. He nailed it. Today, ...

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  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Let's Talk Race
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Fern Johnson & Marlene Fine
It’s curiously indisputable. One of the most difficult conversations for whites and blacks to have is the subject of race. Especially for whites. I...

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  • Added: May 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
An Autocratic Solution
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Nanshan Cultural Tourist Zone in Sanya, China , Credit: Denny Ryanto @runninghead
In this episode, part thirty-eight of the multi-part BLUEprint series, we examine some statistics that show steps China is taking to confront the c...

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 05:38
The Wealth Hoarders
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Chuck Collins
It’s a secret army that’s been around for decades. But. They don’t carry guns. They wield pens. They write a lot of rules and regulation that you’l...

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  • Added: May 04, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
2021-05-02 Radical Markets: Solutions for a Gilded Age?
From: Philosophy Talk
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Is inequality an inevitable product of the free market?

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  • Added: May 03, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Tyranny of Experts
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: William Easterly
Around the world populist leaders or on the rise. The higher the poverty rate, the more likely a “benevolent autocrat” holds power. The problem is ...

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  • Added: Apr 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
No Common Ground
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Karen Cox
Polarizing debates over the meaning behind Confederate monuments have intensified lately. There are legal battles to remove them. Legislative maneu...

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  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1

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