IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Series produced by Guy Rathbun

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This weekly show is devoted to political, social, economic, ecological, philosophical and religious ideas.

This series has been broadcast on public radio, and podcast on National Public Radio for the past 10 years, and has included such luminaries as Robert Reich, Chris Hedges, Michael K. Hudson, Vincent Buligosi, Richard Heinberg, and many more.


561 Pieces

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Caption: Ayushi Vig
We hear a lot about the challenges placed upon today’s workforce. It’s not easy. Now, compare that to those working at nonprofit organizations. The...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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Author Anne Riley is not about to be stereotyped. Although she is a successful fiction writer, she has branched out into science, philosophy and dr...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
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Caption: Marc Cortez
The controversary surrounding climate change is frequently charged with emotion. It’s a challenge. If you believe the health of the planet is in da...

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Eli Merritt
We constantly hear that America’s democracy is in peril. Corruption is running amuck. Authoritarianism is on the rise. And very few in the hall of ...

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  • Added: Mar 14, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Andrew Boyd
The Paris Climate Accord set a benchmark 1.5 degrees centigrade warming limit. We didn’t reach that goal. Even the massive snow fall, wildfires, hu...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Naomi Oreskes
The Chicago school of economics lead to the phrase, there’s magic in the market. But, that magic, for many of those who invest, means an unrestrict...

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  • Added: Feb 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Walk the Walk
Policy change policing is critically important. But to fix policing, we need to change the culture. The culture surrounding law enforcement. The va...

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  • Added: Feb 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
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Caption: Silvia Rodriguez Vega
Family separation. Deportation. Border crossing deaths. Profiling. Limited access to resources such as quality education and healthcare. All of the...

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  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
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Caption: Dr. Brad Onishi
The riot at the US Capitol in January 2021 was not a blip or an aberration. In the thinking of Dr. Bradley Onishi and others, it was the logical ou...

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  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
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Caption: Dr. Felicia Kornbluh
Some now refer to a post-Roe reality. What they’re saying is the battle for reproductive rights has shifted back to individual states. Déjà vu. Al...

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  • Added: Jan 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
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Caption: Frank Kalman w/daughter Cali
Nearly 30-years ago the Committee on Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children released a new study. Not surprising, they found an abundance ...

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Don Maruska
The mere mention of climate change can cause an unpleasant, visceral reaction. It’s a subject that we’ve avoided and denied for decades. Understand...

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 28:59
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Caption: Jon D. Erickson
It’s a fairytale we constantly hear. Growth always leads to prosperity. Logically that should mean that we have endless resources. In that case, wh...

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 28:59
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Caption: Dennis Baron
History shows us that freedom of speech is a fluid and evolving concept that requires continual defense. It’s always under threat. And it’s never a...

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  • Added: Nov 28, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Mat Simon, Credit: Wired magazine
Our world is surrounded by microplastic pollution. It’s in the air we breathe. It’s in the food we eat. Our homes are among the most polluted place...

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Michael Webster
When it comes to climate change, it’s easy to feel like a deer caught in the headlights. Temperatures are rising to unsustainable levels. Larger an...

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  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Gregory Mitchell
“Zombie Statistics” is what professor Gregory Mitchell calls them. Those are the chunks of data officials use to prove there is a rise in sex-traff...

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Ed Burmila
The Democrats have lost their footing since the New Deal. That’s how Ed Burmila sees it. Now, he says, they haven’t been able to grasp that they ne...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: John R. Vile, Credit: newschannel5
The first clause of the First Amendment forbids Congress from adopting any laws tending to the establishment religion. Even with that definitive ve...

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Phil Allen, Jr.
This program is a second in a conversation with author Phil Allen, Jr., in which he highlights the prophetic potential of the camera. Its imagery p...

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  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1