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- Added: Sep 09, 2022
- Length: 50:44
- Purchases: 1
A lot had changed since Melvil Dewey came up with a classification system to organize all known and not-yet-known knowledge into a string of number...
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 24:50
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, part thirty-eight of the multi-part BLUEprint series, we examine some statistics that show steps China is taking to confront the c...
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 05:38
We cannot blame social media for our worst demons. But it is undeniable that social media has made it that much easier to create that alternate uni...
- Added: Jan 19, 2021
- Length: 06:00
"For many Americans, there’s never been a better time to reconsider the entire system. Years of work, by abolitionists like Angela Davis, Ruthie Gi...
- Added: Oct 21, 2020
- Length: 04:00
Oct. 2nd is the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, and in an angry toxic world, we would do well to remember a man who fasted, intermittently, to force us...
- Added: Sep 28, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Fifty years ago, there was a radical plan to completely remake a county sheriff’s department in an iconic western town. It almost worked, they almo...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jun 16, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Chasing Love profanity edited version. A poetic exploration of the notion of romantic love, and the way it drives lives and societies.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Feb 09, 2018
- Length: 59:42
- Purchases: 1
“From almost every kind of responsibility and tie from engagement and from faith. So the artist--our task is to move ourselves and the rest of us i...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WRIR
- Added: Oct 10, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
A spate of lynchings in India has Sandip thinking that the U.S. and his home country are not so different.
- Added: Jun 27, 2017
- Length: 06:00
The Poetic Address to the Nation, brought together poets to speak
powerfully against the current administration. Featuring Cam Awkward, Guillermo G...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WRIR
- Added: Apr 28, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
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 discuss the economics and ethics of hedge fund bets on life-saving medication. What’s wrong with companies like Turing Pharmaceutical...
- Added: Jul 10, 2016
- Length: 03:45
That most basic of human gestures of intimacy, a kiss, can still be deadly.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jun 14, 2016
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 1
I will not overlay my Facebook profile picture with the French tricolor.
- Added: Nov 16, 2015
- Length: 06:00
The 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership has been causing conflict of late, with a broad range of disagreements over key provisions and debates inte...
- Added: Jun 02, 2015
- Length: 05:45
In Defense of a National Flag Burning Day
- Added: Apr 03, 2015
- Length: 06:26
I heard Jill Abramson , the former executive editor of the New York Times say recently that since the George W. Bush administration, there have be...
- Added: Feb 05, 2015
- Length: 04:51
A commentary about the recent pay scandals and court decisions
involving student athletes. Plus, a plan to resolve the controversy.
Recently, Peo...
- Added: Nov 03, 2014
- Length: 04:16
If Woodward and Bernstein and Ben Bradlee had gone for the “gotcha” instead of the truth, the cost would have been the truth. The integrity that ...
- Added: Oct 25, 2014
- Length: 04:45
Several reasons are presented which individually and collectively demonstrate why Ebola should be treated as though it is airborne.
- Added: Oct 04, 2014
- Length: 04:16
Coming through the transom today, a letter from New Jersey to share. Civil Liberties: New Jersey-style!! How are they taken? Oh, I guess they mean ...
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 03:50
Remember the sixty second moral inquiry asks questions about what is the right thing to do. Today, we ask "How can you tell If a government is bec...
- Added: Jul 23, 2013
- Length: 01:02
In this season of gratitude, speak. Uphold civil liberties, the human rights that we have, that others will travel thousands of miles for, and when...
- Added: Dec 08, 2012
- Length: 03:28
In this episode First half: : a fable from the future told now..based on half remembered tales of the past and present.
Second half: excerpts from...
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 57:19
