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From: Out of Bounds

LIsa Graves, Executive Director of Center for Media and Democracy focuses on corporate money/ influence on our democratic system

Interview w/ naturalist DIANE ACKERMAN about her book "The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us"

From: Out of Bounds

Award-winning naturalist, poet & author discusses her most recent book "The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us"

Understanding Israel/Palestine part 2

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

This is a follow up interview with sociology professor Eve Spangler on the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine.

Bought by KPVL and KCBX

Dollar Democracy

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Big corporations and their super wealthy owners have bought many American politicians through campaign contributions and lobbying, according to pol...

Bought by KCBX

PTSD: Diagnosis and Identity in Post-empire America - part 2

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Caption: PTSD book cover, Credit: Lexington Books

This is a continuation of a conversation with sociologist Jerry Lembcke. His book, -PTSD: Diagnosis and Identity in Post-empire America.

Bought by KCBX

Late in the Arab Spring with Juan Cole and Steven Heydemann

From: Open Source

Caption: Steven Heydemann at Brown University's "Engaging Afghanistan" Conferece

With the news of Osama Bin Laden's death punctuating the reports from Libya, Syria, and Yemen, we're wondering: is this the beginning of the end, o...

Bought by KUOW

Cultural Capital - Hamid Dabashi & Andre Aciman

From: Open Source

In the cultural crossroads of Manhattan's West Side, we found two standard-bearers for our most promising American tradition -- the literary and in...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

The Black Swan of Cairo - Mark Blyth

From: Open Source

Open Source "Shorties" are 7-8 minute cuts of our best evergreen material. Today: Mark Blyth on the political economy of uncertainty in Japan, Egyp...

Bought by KICI Iowa City

A Jewish Reflection on the Arab Revolt - Philip Weiss

From: Open Source

Journalist Philip Weiss reflects on the links and gaps between European anti-semitism, the neoconservative movement, the modern idea of Zionism, an...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio

Human Textures - Nir Rosen & Marianne Leone Cooper

From: Open Source

Even as we watched transfixed as the protests in Egypt and Tunisia pushed the region's political scene into new waters, Nir Rosen stayed (will stay...

Pakistan Pulse-Takers - Daniyal Mueenuddin & Najam Sethi

From: Open Source

We're talking with the Pakistani journalist Najam Sethi and the fictionist Daniyal Mueenuddin. With both the underlying supposition is that it's Pa...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KXOT Public Radio

Voices of India - Namita Gokhale & Ashis Nandy

From: Open Source

Open Source is in New Delhi with two stars of the writing class. Namita Gokhale is a novelist, publisher, and sparkplug of the Indian literary boom...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and New Hampshire Public Radio

Death of the Liberal Class, Life of Our Inner Sky - Chris Hedges & Damion Searls

From: Open Source

This hour brings politics with Chris Hedges and poetry with Damion Searls. Chris Hedges' new book recounts The Death of the Liberal Class. And the ...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KXOT Public Radio

Problem Solving, Then Poetry - Kwame Anthony Appiah & C.K. Williams

From: Open Source

We're talking with Kwame Anthony Appiah and C.K. Williams this week. The philosopher and storyteller Kwame Anthony Appiah at Princeton is on the tr...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio

Kabul to Paris with John Mearsheimer and Graham Robb

From: Open Source

This week the conversation moves from Kabul to Paris, as we talk with John Mearsheimer, the foreign policy "realist" from the University of Chicago...

Bought by WMNF, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KUOW

The Needle Drop: 06-19-10

From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: The Needle Drop

New music from the Drums and the Radio Dept..

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WTIP, KSJD, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio

An exotic forest of sensual grooves, ambient atmospheres and intoxicating melodies

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Ylang ylang is a flowering tree that grows in South Asia, and on his album, Ylang, Robert Rich has sculpted another exotic forest of sound, full of...

Ludovico Einaudi's Nightbook

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Pianist Ludovico Einaudi is a different kind of classical composer. He's a student of the avant-garde and the rich classical tradition of his nati...

Three Musicians in Communion With Each Other

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Native flute master R. Carlos Nakai, luthier and guitarist William Eaton, and world percussionist Will Clipman return with an album of intuitive im...

Stylish fingerstyle guitarist from Sweden

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Jimmy Wahlsteen turns a pop melody sensibility into fingerstyle instrumentals

NJ man with MS faces marijuana charges, supporters demonstrate

From: Chris Goldstein

Caption: supporters at the Somerset County Courthouse 12/14/09, Credit: Chris Goldstein

John Wilson faces first degree felony charges usually used against cocaine kingpins. Now he faces up to 35 years in state prison for having 17 mari...