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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
HOUR ONE: "Roadtrippin'" - What makes a road trip something special? It's not the destination.
HOUR TWO: "Do Protests Still Matter?" - In the wa...
- Added: Jul 07, 2017
- Length: 01:58:56
If the polls had been right and Hillary Clinton had won someone could have written a great American satire of an America where Donald Trump wins. B...
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- Added: Jun 19, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
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
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
GetPublished! Radio co-host and sci-fi author Thomas Page gives us an oddball history lesson about Communism as a quasi-religious faith that might ...
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 03:27
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Submission by Michel Houellebecq.
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 04:12
On this episode of Overheard, two Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historians.
First Doris Kearns Goodwin on Teddy Roosevelt followed by Jon Me...
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- Added: Feb 21, 2017
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
Iranian-American writer Firoozeh Dumas' commentaries about her hyphenated life have aired on NPR.
But that was a different America. While Firoozeh ...
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- Added: Feb 01, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 2
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
The word “inauguration" takes us all the way back to the politics of ancient Rome and the birds behind the words inauguration, inaugural, auspiciou...
- Added: Jan 20, 2017
- Length: 22:14
Poetry about voting, candidates, and American politics/society.
- Added: Nov 05, 2016
- Length: 57:40
Cornelius Eady reenacts a scene of racial discrimination from the film A Raisin in the Sun.
- Added: Oct 03, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 5
In an address at the 2016 PEN Literary Gala, JK Rowling reflects on the state of free speech around the world. "I find almost everything that Mr. T...
- Added: Aug 02, 2016
- Length: 07:19
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Leaked Documents Reveal TTIP Free Trade Agreement Would Undermine Climate,...
- Added: Jul 14, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
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...
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- Added: Jun 07, 2016
- Length: 59:14
- Purchases: 1
Interview with author Mike Gonzales about his book, The Last Drop.
The one indispensable resource, water is increasingly controlled and even owned...
- Added: Apr 16, 2016
- Length: 29:04
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Michael Eric Dyson's new book, "The Black Presidency Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America", explores the powerful, surprising way the p...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 01:00:50
“It may well be that the Senate Republicans would be better off confirming some moderate Obama nominee to the Supreme Court now, rather than having...
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- Added: Mar 08, 2016
- Length: 09:56
- Purchases: 2
The 2016 Features Editor of THE NATION, Kai Wright, discusses his 2009 anthology, THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: BLACK HISTORY AND CULTURE THROUG...
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- Added: Feb 25, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
America's formidable guardian of the Constitution, Justice Antonin Scalia, is dead...
- Added: Feb 20, 2016
- Length: 02:22:45
Psychiatrist, philosopher, writer, activist and insurgent, Frantz Fanon influenced such revolutionary leaders as Malcolm X and Che Guevara. Fanon ...
- Added: Feb 09, 2016
- Length: 57:30
Etgar Keret, an author and a regular contributor to our show, lives less than a ten minute walk from Kikar Malchey Israel, the square where Rabin w...
- Added: Nov 09, 2015
- Length: 20:08
Reader's Corner host Bob Kustra talks with the Washington Post's Peter Finn about his fascinating book.
- Added: Sep 04, 2015
- Length: 30:10
California wants to deprive you of fuel, and that's why you're already paying a new "global warming" tax.
- Added: Sep 03, 2015
- Length: 15:58
Author of seven post-World War II novels, Joe Kanon takes us back to Berlin, a once grand city now 80% destroyed in the late 1940s. In this book e...
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- Added: Apr 02, 2015
- Length: 09:58
- Purchases: 2