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Sarah Smarsh Explores Class in Rural America
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sarah Smarsh, Credit: Paul Andrews
Sarah Smarsh discusses her book Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth which is 2022-2023 NEA Big Read...

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  • Added: Jul 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 7
2022-07-17 Walter Benjamin and the Re-Enchanted World
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Can we find enchantment without sacrificing reason?

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
2022-06-12 Jean-Paul Sartre
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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The father of Existentialism was born on June 21, 1905.

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  • Added: Jun 13, 2022
  • Length: 53:58
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2222: The Scandalous Truth About Memoir, 5/31/2022
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Why should anyone read—let alone write—a memoir?

  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
2202-03-13 Reading the Troubled Past
From: Philosophy Talk
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What should we do with literature and philosophy from a discredited moral past?

  • Added: Mar 14, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
2022-02-27 Is Postmodernism Really to Blame for Post-Truth?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Did postmodernism merely predict cynicism about the facts, or did it actually promote it?

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
2021-09-05 (End of) Summer Reading List
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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With summer ending and some parts of our lives returning to some kind of normal, what should thoughtful people be reading?

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
2021-05-07 Climate Stories We Tell Ourselves
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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How do our identities and values shape the way we listen to others’ climate experience? Author Nathaniel Rich and journalist Meera Subramanian cove...

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  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 5
210507: Climate Stories We Tell Ourselves, 5/7/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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How do our identities and values shape the way we listen to others’ climate experience? Author Nathaniel Rich and journalist Meera Subramanian cove...

  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 58:57
A conversation with poet Sally Wen Mao
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sally Wen Mao, Credit: Sookoon Ang
Sally Wen Mao’s poetry excavates the burden of spectacle for Asian-Americans.

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  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 28:52
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2021-01-03 Comforting Conversations (Part 1)
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How can insights from the arts and humanities help us cope with difficult times?

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  • Added: Jan 02, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
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2020-08-23 (There's Still) Time for Summer Reading
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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There's still time for deep reading this summer (and our 500th episode).

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
2020-06-21 Jean-Paul Sartre
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What exactly is existentialism? How are we condemned to be free? And what’s so hellish about other people?

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  • Added: Jun 19, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
200515: Storytelling Through the Climate Crisis, 5/15/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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How do we confront the reality of a future that will be hauntingly different from today? Some authors are using fiction to create relatable narrati...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
2020-05-15 Storytelling Through the Climate Crisis
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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How do we confront the reality of a future that will be hauntingly different from today? Some authors are using fiction to create relatable narrati...

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  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
2021-02-14 What Is Love?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Do you them because they're lovable, or are they lovable because you love them?

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
2019-12-29 Ken Taylor Tribute
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Remembering Philosophy Talk's co-creator, chief cheerleader, and guiding light, Ken Taylor.

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  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
191213: Rewind: Jonathan Safran Foer and David Wallace-Wells, 12/13/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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A look back at conversations with two writers confronting the climate challenge in 2019. In "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming," David-Wa...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
2019-12-13 Rewind: Jonathan Safran Foer and David Wallace-Wells
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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A look back at conversations with two writers confronting the climate challenge in 2019. In "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming," David-Wa...

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  • Added: Dec 12, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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191004: Jonathan Safran Foer: We Are the Weather, 10/4/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Is clinging to habits and cravings destroying our future? An outspoken critic of factory farming and animal-centric diets, Jonathan Safran Foer wri...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
19-10-04 Jonathan Safran Foer: We Are the Weather
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Is clinging to habits and cravings destroying our future? An outspoken critic of factory farming and animal-centric diets, Jonathan Safran Foer wri...

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
Susan Kuklin, author of "We Are Here To Stay: Voices of Undocumented Young Adults"
From: Generation Justice Admin
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Susan Kuklin is an author of more than thirty books for children and young adults, well known for her photo essays for young children and her oral ...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2019
  • Length: 21:08
Speeches From The 2018 Dayton Literary Peace Prize
From: WYSO
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The 2018 Dayton Literary Peace Prize award ceremony was held on October 28, 2018 at the Schuster Center. In this special presentation of selection...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2019
  • Length: 52:45
Summer Reading List
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What books should thoughtful people read this summer?

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  • Added: Aug 20, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 7