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The Works Progress Administration, what became better known as the WPA, was designed to provide jobs for unemployed Americas. One of their provoca...
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- Added: Feb 05, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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It’s well understood that our environment affects our behavior. Realistically, though, it works both ways. Our behavior profoundly impacts our envi...
- Added: Jan 28, 2020
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 3
An innocent nerdy-boy-turned-soldier visits his pot-smoking friend in the Muslim quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem in the late 1980s. Tensions r...
- Added: Jan 28, 2020
- Length: 21:47
Usually, when someone is thought to have sold out, it’s a negative reference. It can mean they’ve betrayed their values and ethics. Yet it’s someth...
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- Added: Jan 13, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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America is facing challenging times. This much chaos and confusion has not been witnessed since the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s and ‘70s. As...
- Added: Jan 07, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
There are more incentives to spread fake information than not. Money can play a big factor, but there’s also that immature need to feel that you ca...
- Added: Dec 30, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
We like to think of America as a country that, until recently, welcomes immigrants. In reality, that’s never been the case. You may have read abou...
- Added: Dec 22, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
"Honorable people can do terrible things" says Andrea Pitzer in her book "One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps." We talk to Andr...
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- Added: Dec 17, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Very few issues cause heated debate like the vaccination controversy. From their introduction, vaccines have created concern and skepticism.
- Added: Dec 09, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Lutsen resident JD Lehr recently returned from hiking 1,600 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail. He joined Brian on The Roadhouse to tell us why, and...
- Added: Dec 05, 2019
- Length: 14:35
For a growing number of Americans, our current political realities are of increasing concern. Many are deeply puzzled about what we do in the near ...
- Added: Dec 03, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
There are fakes all around us. No, this isn’t about “fake news.” In fact, the overuse of that term as given real fakes a bad name. That’s right. We...
- Added: Nov 26, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Nov 09, 2019
- Length: 59:08
A general tendency among those who study human behavior is to identify two separate groups of mental predators.
- Added: Nov 06, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
An act of oppression comes in many forms. Government, household, work environment, and even friendships. It happens when one group or person exerci...
- Added: Oct 29, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Most of us don’t spend a lot of time thinking about how much time we spend online. We might even ask if it really matters. The digital world is so ...
- Added: Oct 23, 2019
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
In 1965, two intellectuals met at Cambridge University for a debate. The topic: “The American dream is at the expense of the American Negro.” The r...
- Added: Oct 15, 2019
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
We're hearing more from and about American extremist groups lately, like white supremacists and Incels. One thing their members have in common is m...
Bought by KWIT, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Louisville Public Media, WNIN, KWIT and more
- Added: Oct 10, 2019
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 10
While Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco de Goya and Russian writer Leo Tolstoy were separated by time and space, the two created incomparabl...
- Added: Oct 10, 2019
- Length: 26:51
While Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco de Goya and Russian writer Leo Tolstoy were separated by time and space, the two created incomparabl...
- Added: Oct 10, 2019
- Length: 31:19
The September 20th 2019: Women Warriors — Voices of Change multimedia concert performed by Orchestra Moderne NYC, under the direction of Amy Anders...
- Added: Sep 25, 2019
- Length: 01:40
Mixing history with poetic metaphor is not an easy task. Especially when the subject involves separate cultures, different languages, and vastly ch...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Zeitgeist New Music Quartet welcomes No Exit New Music from Cleveland for a weekend of concerts together. This collaboration is an annual thing. Co...
- Added: Sep 12, 2019
- Length: 08:00
We’re obsessed with predicting the future. Most of the time, though, we get it wrong. On the other hand, we can predict a specific event with near ...
- Added: Sep 10, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
We spend the hour with science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist, Cory Doctorow. First, we talk with him about his terrific new boo...
- Added: Sep 06, 2019
- Length: 59:01
