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Cutting School

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

America’s system of public schools is recognized as one of the countries greatest achievements.

Bought by KCBX

Added: Dec 15, 2017
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Florida: Liquid Landscape

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

Florida is an ever-changing landscape. With little warning, what was once land, becomes water, and what was once water becomes land. Frequently. E...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Nov 01, 2017
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

The Importance of Being Funny

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

Political humorists are having a feeding frenzy. There seems to be more satire available than they can handle very day then they can handle.

Bought by KVSC and KCBX

Added: Sep 14, 2017
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

Fault Lines in the Constitution

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

The U.S. Constitution has been amended 27 times since its ratification in 1788. After all of this time, many Americans take the words of the consti...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Sep 01, 2017
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Stealth Communications

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

The art of communication. We grow up thinking that we can talk and hear, or even sign, therefore we can communicate.

Bought by KCBX

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

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...

Bought by XRAY.fm and KCBX

Added: Jul 25, 2017
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

Toxic Inequality

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

Income and wealth inequality is now a regular topic of conversation. The standard of living for most Americans’ since the Great Recession is either...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Jul 20, 2017
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Campus Confidential

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

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.

Bought by KCBX

Added: Jun 27, 2017
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Democracy in Chains

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

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...

Bought by KCBX

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

American voters have been convinced to vote against their best interests for decades, according to sociology professors Corey Dolgon.

Bought by KCBX

Added: Jun 12, 2017
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Dissecting Hillary's Loss

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

Hillary Clinton has spent the last 16-years in government service, and 8-years occupying the White House. All of that experience did her little goo...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Jun 05, 2017
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

The Broken Ladder

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

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...

Bought by KCBX

Added: May 25, 2017
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

The National Endowment for the Arts speaks with Cory Doctorow

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

The award-winning novelist, blogger, and advocate talks about science fiction and technology.

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP

Added: May 11, 2017
Length: 26:59
Purchases: 2

The Despot's Accomplice

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

By all appearances, the world is becoming less democratic.

Bought by KCBX

Added: May 11, 2017
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

The Death of Expertise

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

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.

Bought by KCBX

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

The Trump Administration is calling for drastic cuts in scientific research and development.

Bought by KCBX

Added: Apr 09, 2017
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

John Dickerson on Presidential Campaign History

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: John Dickerson, Credit: Courtesy of CBS

Author and moderator of Face the Nation, John Dickerson’s book Whistlestop is a witty rollicking tour of presidential campaign history

Bought by KPIP-LP, WTJU, WMUU-LP, and WNJR

Added: Mar 02, 2017
Length: 28:59
Purchases: 4

Direct Action

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

You’ve probably noticed quite a number of protests across America in recent weeks. Activists everywhere are speaking up. This is not spontaneous ac...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX

Added: Feb 28, 2017
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair that Shaped the First Lady

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

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt took up residency at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in 1932, Eleanor looked upon the move to the White House with...

Bought by KCBX and KCBX

Added: Feb 22, 2017
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power & the Necessity of Military Force

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

“Speak softly and carry a big stick” are the words of Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. When President Garfield was assassinated two weeks later, ...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Feb 14, 2017
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

The Future of Democracy: Sec. Leon Panetta

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

It’s not unusual for a new president to find the adjustment from candidate to leader to be jolting but President Trump’s first week in office has b...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Jan 26, 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

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...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX

Added: Dec 13, 2016
Length: 29:01
Purchases: 2

Viking Economics

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

The Scandinavian countries … Sweden, Norway and Denmark … boasts the world’s happiest, most productive people. They have equality, low unemployment...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and KCBX

Added: Nov 29, 2016
Length: 29:01
Purchases: 2

Vanishing Bees

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

It’s called “colony collapse disorder” or CCD. A number of years ago US beekeeping operations realized they lost between 30 and 90 percent of their...

Bought by KSFR and KCBX