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2023-04-02 Why Poetry Matters
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Are poems valuable because they do something for us, or are they gloriously useless?

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
2314: Why Poetry Matters, 4/4/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Are poems valuable because they do something for us, or are they gloriously useless?

  • Added: Mar 27, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2309: Montaigne and the Art of the Essay, 2/28/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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How did Michel de Montaigne (born February 28, 1533) invent a new way to do philosophy?

  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2023-02-26 Montaigne and the Art of the Essay
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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If philosophy is a way of life, what kind of writing best helps us live it?

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
EE 23-09: Writing a novel is easy as pie (if only pie were easy), 2/24/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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The creators of How to Write a Novel in 20 Pies talk with Earth Eats about their book.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 54:02
761: You're Not OK. That's OK. / 762: Writing The Climate Change Story, 1/21/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "You're Not OK. That's OK." - One of our producers created a yard sign. It reads: "You're not OK. That's OK." 300 signs later, it's causi...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:01
“The Future is Disabled”: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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“At the core of my work and life is the belief that disabled wisdom is the key to our survival and expansion,” shares Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasi...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Fallen Heroes 2022
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Thousands of social justice leaders in communities all over the world passed away this year. We're closing out the year, as we usually do, with in...

Bought by WXDU and KMUN


  • Added: Dec 25, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
(2023-01-04 Holiday Re-Air) How do we take a breath? Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ UNDROWNED
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Are you drowning? The start of the school year can be stressful for parents, teachers and students. And this year hasn’t been smooth sailing for ma...

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
2022-11-13 In Search of Proust's Philosophy
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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November 18 marks the centennial of the French writer's death.

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  • Added: Nov 14, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
2022-10-23 Philosophy and the Superhero
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Holy metaphysics, Batman!

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  • Added: Oct 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Kim Stanley Robinson: Writing the Future Story People Want
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Can a novel become a catalyst to help us address impending climate disaster? That’s one question posed by the legendary Kim Stanley Robinson, in hi...

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  • Added: Sep 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
2022-09-04 (End of) Summer Reading List: Banned Books Edition
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What thoughtful and controversial books do some people say other people shouldn’t read?

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
2022-07-31 James Baldwin and Social Justice
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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The prolific writer and Civil Rights-era activist was born August 2, 1924.

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2022
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 13
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
699: You're Not OK. That's OK. / 700: Difficult Summer Reading, 6/18/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "You're Not OK. That's OK." - One of our producers created a yard sign. It reads: "You're not OK. That's OK." 300 signs later, it's causi...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
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
  • Purchases: 5
NATO and the “Age of Disasters”: The Future of Crisis Management
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Ray sits down with Ivo Daalder, President of the Chicago Institute on Global Affairs and former US Ambassador to NATO, to discuss the alliance’s ev...

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  • Added: Jun 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Race and the Future of the Love Story Part 2
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We revisit a major race debate within the Romance Writers of America that began in 2019 and talk about why questions of race in art and in institut...

Bought by WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
2022-05-29 The Scandalous Truth About Memoir
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Why should anyone read—let alone write—a memoir?

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  • Added: May 30, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
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
Interview with Author Brian K. Larson
From: Adam Scull
Series: EatSleepWrite.org
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I'll be sleeping and all of a sudden, my eyes pop open and I begin to see the book. It happens not only at night as well at any time of the day. Wh...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2022
  • Length: 15:42
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

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