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The anniversary of the loss of my childhood friend who died from suicide just passed. She, like many women, was sexually abused and never told an...
- Added: Oct 19, 2016
- Length: 07:59
Today’s Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks when men engage in sexploitation whose responsibility is it to refuse to sanction or accept as ‘just the wa...
- Added: Oct 13, 2016
- Length: 01:14
-Caroline Shaw is the youngest recipient ever of the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Now she’s one of the most respected composers on the New Music scene...
Bought by WCNY, KRDP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more
- Added: Oct 07, 2016
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 6
-Caroline Shaw is the youngest recipient ever of the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Now she’s one of the most respected composers on the New Music scene...
Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KWMR, WJCU, KKRN and more
- Added: Oct 07, 2016
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 8
Today's Sixty-second Moral inquiry brings quotations from the Republican Bible on Adultery which ask 'Why Shouldn't the GOP Presidential Candidate...
- Added: Oct 05, 2016
- Length: 01:18
Here we are just weeks before the 2016 Presidential election and what seems to be on the line- still- is whether or not Hillary Clinton is a truth...
- Added: Sep 30, 2016
- Length: 02:40
Janet Bergstrom is a Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA who has followed Chantal Akerman’s work closely since 1976. She is working on an...
- Added: Sep 27, 2016
- Length: 59:58
I’m not sure how one marries the proprietary "I give the right to life” to the “I give the right to life free from emotional and physical torment...
- Added: Sep 17, 2016
- Length: 06:17
This US Presidential campaign has been characterized by a striking absence of empathy. No empathy between candidates and a Social Code that defines...
- Added: Sep 13, 2016
- Length: 07:05
I went to a performance "designed to raise awareness surrounding gun violence and its victims" the program said. The Colorado-based modern dance c...
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Sep 11, 2016
- Length: 07:17
- Purchases: 1
When Mitch McConnell and the Republicans snub a duly elected President and the American people who want a Supreme Court nominee to be vetted throug...
- Added: Sep 02, 2016
- Length: 07:13
-Yoko Ono was an accomplished and innovative artist long before she met John Lennon.
- A novel by Fred D’Aguiar tells the story of a mother and dau...
Bought by WJCT, WJCU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WUGA (part of GPB), WLIW and more
- Added: Sep 02, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 7
In Maine, recently, an internationally known annual road race was held . 6338 runners raced. One runner in the group of the first 183 spent a full...
- Added: Aug 14, 2016
- Length: 05:01
As the battle wages on between the unarmed and the armed, the armed and the armed, the open carry armed and the concealed carry armed, the proble...
- Added: Jul 30, 2016
- Length: 05:19
Today’s sixty-second Moral Inquiry asks ‘What’s the difference between verbal abuse, which uses words to hold power over others by intimidating, th...
- Added: Jul 26, 2016
- Length: 01:09
A musical tribute to "My Funny I.T. Guy" . Blackberry phones - like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had- used to be considered difficult...
- Added: Jul 08, 2016
- Length: 02:08
I watched the next-to-last Prairie Home Companion live broadcast on my laptop since the show and the 1 and ½ hour encore were live streamed on You-...
- Added: Jun 27, 2016
- Length: 05:09
The lessons of D.L. Rosenhan's study of imposters pretending to have psychiatric illness on psychiatric units have not been lost on the world of me...
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 07:32
History is written by the Big and the Small. "The Vietnam War" documentary has reminded us that. The Moving Wall, a half scale version of the smoot...
- Added: May 27, 2016
- Length: 07:06
-Deridre Enright, who was the law expert featured in the podcast Serial and is director of the University of Virginia Innocent Project. She speaks ...
Bought by WCNY, WMUU-LP, KEDT, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WTJU
- Added: May 27, 2016
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 5
According to the Supreme Court, corporations are people. The absurdity of this statement notwithstanding, it is clear that, like people, corporatio...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
- Added: May 17, 2016
- Length: 29:40
- Purchases: 2
In a Presidential primary that taxes our belief that the purpose of government is to benefit our lives, I remember legislation that Hillary Clinton...
- Added: May 13, 2016
- Length: 03:14
Back in 2005, Dana Connors, Maine State Chamber of Commerce president said, "This is not the time or place to expand Maine care coverage to more u...
- Added: Apr 24, 2016
- Length: 07:02
-Pulitzer Prize winning author Dan Fagin on his book "Tom's River: A Story of Science and Salvation" that tells the story of a how small town fough...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Apr 19, 2016
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 1
-Pulitzer Prize winning author Dan Fagin on how a small town fought against pollution and the polluters.
-Marc Edwards who helped uncover the water...
- Added: Apr 15, 2016
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 6
