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Alger Hiss: Framed
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Joan Brady
It’s been nearly 70-years since the House on Un-American Activities Committee heard the testimony of Alger Hiss.

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  • Added: Aug 23, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Marceline Lasater - One Person, One Vote?
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents Marceline Lasater, Attorney at Law, One person, One vote? A Texas attorney explains why, since 1911, our votes are no...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2017
  • Length: 28:31
Stealth Communications
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Sue Jansen
The art of communication. We grow up thinking that we can talk and hear, or even sign, therefore we can communicate.

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  • Added: Aug 09, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Peter Kalmus
We have a choice to fight the change, or be part of the change. That has never been more apparent than when we are watching ice caps melt, heat tha...

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  • Added: Jul 25, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Reclaiming Humanity From Commodification and Bureaucratization
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Daina Ramey Berry
A historian and a journalist speak about the devaluation of human life past and present in America.

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  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 2
Toxic Inequality
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Thomas M. Shapiro
Income and wealth inequality is now a regular topic of conversation. The standard of living for most Americans’ since the Great Recession is either...

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Campus Confidential
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jacques Berlinerblau
In the 1970s, over half of America’s university professors were tenured or on the tenure track. Today that figure is around 25-percent and falling.

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  • Added: Jun 27, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Democracy in Chains
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Nancy MacLean
When the term RINO is used in political circles today, it’s an acronym for Republican in Name Only. The basic translation is that the today’s GOP b...

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Kill It to Save It
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Corey Dolgon
American voters have been convinced to vote against their best interests for decades, according to sociology professors Corey Dolgon.

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  • Added: Jun 12, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
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The Broken Ladder
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Keith Payne
Inequality in America today is staggering. It’s on a scale that none of us has seen in our lifetime. Yet, very few are even trying to address a pro...

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  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
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The Despot's Accomplice
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Brian Klaas
By all appearances, the world is becoming less democratic.

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  • Added: May 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Death of Expertise
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Tom Nichols
Research is not plugging a question into a browser. Yet, we treat the Internet as though it has intelligence. And, in turn, that makes us intelligent.

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Science Under Attack part 3
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Rush Holt
The Trump Administration is calling for drastic cuts in scientific research and development.

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  • Added: Apr 09, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
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Science Under Attack part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Ben Santer, Credit: Commonwealth Club
President Donald Trump has sent conflicting message about climate change. One time he calls it an urgent problem. Then he refers to it as a hoax.

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  • Added: Apr 05, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Outsourcing the Dream?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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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 ...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Moral Revolution: Tom Shadyac Part 2 #202
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Hollywood director Tom Shadyac traded a mansion and private jets for a mobile home and a bicycle. He had found the traditional trappings of success...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Survival of the Kindest: Tom Shadyac #201
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
Caption: Steve Carell and Tom Shadyac on the set
Tom Shadyac is a successful Hollywood comedy director who found the traditional trappings of success were not the key to happiness. He traded a man...

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  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power & the Necessity of Military Force
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Eliot A. Cohen
“Speak softly and carry a big stick” are the words of Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. When President Garfield was assassinated two weeks later, ...

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  • Added: Feb 14, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
War Torn: Stories of Courage, Love, and Resilience
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kenneth E. Miller
It’s estimated that roughly 200 million people are affected by wars across the globe. One-third of those are refugees.

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  • Added: Feb 07, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
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The Revolution Where You Live
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Sarah van Gelder
No matter how we voted in this last election, all of us can agree on one thing. Our country, and the world, faces significant problems: Racism to c...

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  • Added: Jan 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Call to Postpone the Electoral College Vote
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Seth Abramson
An unexpected turn has unfolded with the 2016 elections. The Washington Post broke the story on Friday, December 9 that Russia not only hacked Amer...

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Viking Economics
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: George Lakey at Occupy Philly
The Scandinavian countries … Sweden, Norway and Denmark … boasts the world’s happiest, most productive people. They have equality, low unemployment...

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Biting the Hands that Feed Us
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Baylen Linnekin
Food Waste, hunger, inhumane livestock conditions, disappearing fish stocks … just a few of the serious issues we have with our food supply. We exp...

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  • Added: Oct 11, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Jacob S. Hacker discusses "American Amnesia"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra talks with Jacob Hacker, author of "American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper."

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  • Added: Sep 02, 2016
  • Length: 30:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Fractured Republic
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Yuval Levin
Americans appear frustrated today. The economy that was supposed to bounce back following the recession nearly a decade ago, remains sluggish and s...

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  • Added: Aug 02, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1