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2320: Are We All To Blame?, 5/16/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Can we be held responsible for things that aren't in our direct control?

  • Added: May 08, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2023-05-07 Kierkegaard
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Can we only face the world with resignation and despair?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 08, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 3
Was January 6th an Existential Threat to American Democracy?
From: Open to Debate
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By now it is clear, the Red Wave election-denying candidates had hoped to ride left most still waiting on the beach. Those who questioned the outco...

  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2319: Kierkegaard, 5/9/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Can we only face the world with resignation and despair?

  • Added: Apr 28, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
The Sierra Club’s Ben Jealous: Parables of Healing for the Environmental Movement
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The Earth's temperature is rising and time is running out to change direction according to the IPCC. But veteran organizer/strategist Ben Jealous (...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Apr 19, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Tribute to the Late Urban Provocateur Mike Davis
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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We feature a lecture by Mike Davis about his book Planet of Slums, which investigates the increasing inequality of the urban world. According to th...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
Frances Goldin, “Rabble Rousers” & the NYC Housing Struggle that Won
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Low income Americans face an acute housing shortage. But our guests have a victory to share. “Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Coop...

Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMUN and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Laura & Stephanie Flanders: Sisters Debate the Economic Crisis
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Laura and Stephanie Flanders are sisters with different points of view but a common fascination with economics. Tune in to this episode where they ...

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


  • Added: Apr 05, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
How To Be A Better Ally For Peace and Justice
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: Kevin Groen
On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we’ll be talking about what it means to be a ally to members of marginalized communities, and the necessary d...

Bought by KCNP and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 29, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
EE 23-12: If you care about food, pay attention to The Farm Bill, 3/17/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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The farm bill isn’t just about farming. It’s about food security for households across the nation.

  • Added: Mar 16, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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?

Bought by KMUN, KICI Iowa City, KSKQ, KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
Right to Recreation: The History of African American Leisure Sites
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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Historian Alison Rose Jefferson discusses her book ‘Living The California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During The Jim Crow Era’. She demon...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
2307: The Philosophical Legacy of Darwin, 2/14/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Charles Darwin (born February 12, 1809) fundamentally changed our understanding of human life—for better or for worse?

  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
2023-01-29 Citizenship and Justice
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is citizenship the best recipe for non-discrimination?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KSKQ, KICI Iowa City, RadioStPete Florida, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 13
Seeking Peace on Earth: A Peace Talks Radio Special (2022) [29:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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It's a compendium of highlights from just one season in the long-running award-winning PEACE TALKS RADIO series. You'll hear clips from our series ...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Dec 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Seeking Peace on Earth: A Peace Talks Radio Special (2022)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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It's a compendium of highlights from just one season in the long-running award-winning PEACE TALKS RADIO series. You'll hear clips from our series ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and KUNM


  • Added: Dec 28, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
2022-12-25 How Relevant Is Jesus?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Can we know anything about Jesus' views on contemporary moral issues?

Bought by KSKQ, KICI Iowa City, KMXT, KTSW 89.9, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Dec 26, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
Howard Zinn at 100: A People’s History, Urgent Lessons for the Present
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Historian Howard Zinn would have turned 100 in 2022. His monumental work, A People’s History of the United States, published in 1980, continues to ...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
North Carolina: Courageous Conversations in a Climate of Fear
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Many questions remain about the recent attack on North Carolina’s electrical grid, which left tens of thousands of citizens unsettled, frightened a...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, RadioStPete Florida, KDNK and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
What difference can a play make? Ask Angola Prison
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In 2020, the authorities at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (better known as Angola, for the former plantation on which it stands) shut down a pla...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
2022-10-30 How to Create Virtuous Leaders
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Do good leaders need to be good people first?

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN, KSKQ, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Soledad O’Brien on Rosa Parks: The Untold Story
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Rosa Parks is best known to Americans as a national treasure — the little old lady who sat down on a bus and “ended racism.” What we lose in that d...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
2022-10-16 Liberty and Justice For Who?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How could a "pro-freedom" philosophy be used to deprive people around the world of the right to self-government?

Bought by KSKQ, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN, KTSW 89.9, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 17, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
2022-10-09 Is the Self an Illusion?
From: Philosophy Talk
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Is the self just a fiction we create to make sense of a complicated world?

Bought by KMUN and WVTF


  • Added: Oct 10, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2