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Noted feminist scholar Bettina Aptheker explores the dawning of her feminist consciousness in waves. Daughter of a communist, Aptheker had to throw...
- Added: Mar 25, 2024
- Length: 57:00
Liz Cheney shares the enthralling details from her book, Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning, of defending the Constitution while inside the Cap...
- Added: Mar 18, 2024
- Length: 25:14
This week on the show: The troubling trend looming over Cairo's City of the Dead.
Who gets to decide the best way to make space in a city? Officia...
Bought by WFHB, Troy Public Radio, and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)
- Added: Sep 21, 2023
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 3
Today we feature four poets who help us see our own predicaments – one who shows us we contain multitudes; one whose life and writing was always an...
- Added: Apr 05, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Redistricting has the power to shape elections, and this year, it’s more controversial than ever. After a contentious 2020 census, the development ...
Bought by KWMR, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and WNYE
- Added: Feb 16, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
For Black History Month, we air our conversation with Tamara Payne about her late father Les Payne’s acclaimed biography of Malcolm X, The Dead Are...
- Added: Feb 02, 2022
- Length: 58:42
In today's show we explore the history of recognizing the trauma experienced by soldiers in war - PTSD is only the most recent iteration of this di...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KNCT FM, RADIOLEX, and KTSW 89.9
- Added: Jan 04, 2022
- Length: 59:03
- Purchases: 4
In some parts of the world, traditional herbal remedies are the norm. When we think of natural remedies we tend to think of older generations liv...
Bought by KVNF, WXDU, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Nov 10, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
In this historic, inter-generational meeting of minds, Laura Flanders brings together New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and MIT profe...
Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KMUN
- Added: Oct 28, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 4
Today we discuss the work of the late Noel Ignatiev using the memoir that has just been published by Charles H. Kerr. It’s called Acceptable Men: L...
Bought by RADIOLEX
- Added: Sep 21, 2021
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 1
While US Slavery established the template for the production of staples like rice, sugar, and cotton, it also troubled the imperial imaginary: how ...
Bought by RADIOLEX
- Added: Jun 15, 2021
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
This is a remix of our show Focus on Apartheid from July 2016 with guest Alex Lichtenstein, Professor of History at Indiana University. Our topic i...
- Added: Jun 08, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Our guest is author Thalia Field and our show is about the way normative stories, whether told as fiction or science or religion or history, work t...
- Added: May 25, 2021
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 3
Amid national outrage over the police killing of George Floyd in May of 2020, and other police-shootings of Black people, the movement to "defund t...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Alan Wald's Literary Left Trilogy investigates aspects of intellectual, literary, and cultural movements and figures associated with left-wing poli...
- Added: Mar 23, 2021
- Length: 59:03
The economic collapse unfolding before our eyes is much bigger than it appears and the solution isn’t simply to “build back better.” COVID-19 didn’...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
Cynthia Canty talks with journalist Bob Giles, author of "When Truth Mattered."
Bought by WKAR, WCMU Michigan, WNMU-FM, and Michigan Radio
- Added: Nov 15, 2020
- Length: 54:30
- Purchases: 4
What is most striking is that what Dan Nemser describes of 17th century Mexico City is a mode of organization nearly unchanged over four centuries....
- Added: May 12, 2020
- Length: 59:01
In this episode, Laura interviews author and Yale historian Greg Grandin about his new book The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wa...
Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Feb 26, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
Today we highlight exemplars: A. J. Muste, Mister Rogers, and Benjamin Lay. These were men who lived lives that challenged the expectations of thei...
- Added: Dec 24, 2019
- Length: 59:01
WMRA and James Madison University present The John Grisham Writers Hour with special guest Jon Meacham.
- Added: Dec 03, 2019
- Length: 53:58
In Red Meat Republic author Joshua Specht brings to life a turbulent era marked by Indian wars, Cowboy myths, Chicago labor unrest, and food riots ...
- Added: Jul 02, 2019
- Length: 58:26
Francesca talks with Glenn Silber about the acclaimed documentary he co-directed, The War At Home. It’s about the anti-war movement in Madison, Wis...
- Added: May 07, 2019
- Length: 59:01
Our program features an in-studio interview with Paul Buhle; Debs’ words brought to life by four local writers; and ends with Buhle talking to an a...
- Added: Apr 09, 2019
- Length: 59:00
Using their own words to condemn them, Rob Larson exposes these intellectual opportunists for what they are: defenders of cruel power systems. Men ...
- Added: Dec 19, 2018
- Length: 59:01
