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Some in India are over the moon that Rishi Sunak has become the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- Added: Nov 01, 2022
- Length: 06:00
More and more celebrities are tweeting about the farmer protest in India, and while this is about the backbone of India but it’s not the farmers wh...
- Added: Feb 08, 2021
- Length: 06:00
What happened in the United States might feel shocking. But we gloat at our own peril.
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Indians now look at the 2020 American elections and understand that there’s chaos that’s colorful and then there’s chaos thats toxic.
- Added: Nov 02, 2020
- Length: 06:00
This week we talk about ad hominem, Soviet propaganda, and red herrings.
We also discuss Pravda, logical fallacies, and hypocrisy.
- Added: May 05, 2017
- Length: 27:25
This week we talk about chronological snobbery, signaling theory, and the Chicken Connoisseur.
We also discuss social cognition, Discover Weekly, ...
- Added: Mar 30, 2017
- Length: 44:37
Used as Indian Americans are to being heralded as the model minority, their feathers might be ruffled by the stories of harassment coming out of th...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 22, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Perhaps an unwelcoming America is not such a bad thing for the rest of the world. It’s as if the American Dream itself is being outsourced back to ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 2
This week we talk about the Harlem Hammer, COINTELPRO, and punching nazis.
- Added: Feb 28, 2017
- Length: 42:03
This week we talk about enemies who are friends, globalization, and non-polarized opinions.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 36:24
This week we talk about noble lies, compassion fatigue, and addiction.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 36:55
This week we talk about smart mobs, reddit, and Kompromat.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 41:27
This week, we talk about self-driving trucks, Malthusian catastrophes, and human obsolescence.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 47:03
This week we discuss protests in several different contexts.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 52:53
This week we talk about the German kunstschutz unit, the Venus de Milo, and slavery reparations.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 44:53
A currency note is a promise. The Indian government is holding that promise in abeyance, even breaking that trust, by promising a better future.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Nov 28, 2016
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Khizr Khan did something few have been able to do in this bitter and vulgar presidential election.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Aug 01, 2016
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 1
Indians have no reason to feel left out anymore.
The Donald has noticed them and the Donald has mocked them.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: May 02, 2016
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Television is not just news. It has become the lynchpin of the lynchmob.
- Added: Feb 22, 2016
- Length: 06:00
First published on the eve of Martin Luther King Day , we turn to our preferred form of political expression, the sonnet, to acknowledge the compas...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jan 15, 2016
- Length: 01:11
- Purchases: 1
I will not overlay my Facebook profile picture with the French tricolor.
- Added: Nov 16, 2015
- Length: 06:00
As more writers return awards and honors, cynics ask if this is an outbreak of Award Returnitis
- Added: Oct 12, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Mahesh Sharma, India’s Culture minister, and a high school in Irving, Texas have more in common than they realize.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Sep 22, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The secrecy around an illness can become the great taboo.
What Jimmy Carter did by going public was break that taboo and face the disease squarely....
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Aug 25, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
After Nelson Mandela was freed from the life sentence he was serving in prison, he often spoke about refusing bitterness toward his captors. But h...
- Added: Dec 06, 2013
- Length: 02:54
