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The Big Myth
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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
  • Purchases: 1
Constitution
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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
  • Purchases: 1
Off with Her Head
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Eleanor Herman
Wherever you look in history, you’ll find misogyny. It’s equally rampant in the rumors surrounding Cleopatra during her reign and Kamala Harris bef...

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  • Added: Sep 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Clash: Presidents and the Press in Times of Crisis
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jon Marshall
Former President Donald Trump attacked the press relentlessly before and after his term in office. A master at manipulation, he even admitted that ...

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  • Added: May 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
2021 Producer’s Choice Awards – Part 2: The Poetry Show
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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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
Your Neighborhood in your Hands: A Model from the South Bronx
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Real estate development conjures up images of gentrification with sleek buildings and polished store fronts often built under the guise of urban re...

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Born in Blackness part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Howard W. French, Credit: Guardian
It’s just possible that our understanding of history is seen through a distorted lens. We think we know how the modern world was made. But, keep in...

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  • Added: Feb 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Born in Blackness
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Howard W. French
Most of us know very little about the history of the African American. Their contribution to our culture and society is rich and multilayered that...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
An Illustrated Business History of the United States
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Richard Vague
The story of American business is the story of real estate. More than two hundred years of seizing, claiming, settling and developing. And, the col...

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  • Added: Dec 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Edward J. Watts
We’re hearing a lot of rhetoric about the decline of American society. Politicians cloak themselves in the need for a renewal to an America of the ...

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  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Conger Beasley Jr.: Past American Voice
From: New Letters on the Air
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR features the Past American Voice of Conger Beasley Jr. whose last book, ON BECOMING APACHE, was published posthumously at th...

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  • Added: Aug 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
All Societies Die
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Samuel Cohn
The adage: If one does not learn from the past, one is doomed to repeat it. Although that doesn’t mean people or their governments are going to rep...

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  • Added: Jul 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
No Common Ground
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Karen Cox
Polarizing debates over the meaning behind Confederate monuments have intensified lately. There are legal battles to remove them. Legislative maneu...

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  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
US Healthcare After Covid: What’s Next & How Could It Be Better?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The Medicare for All Act was reintroduced into the U.S. House in March with a record number of cosponsors and public support. But while the idea of...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Agitators
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Harriet Tubman
If you are going to write a history, a basic premise is that it must be believable. But, as you know, there are several true stories that actually ...

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Not Everyone is a Jerk: Rutger Bregman on Humankind
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Life gives us plenty of reasons for cynicism but best-selling author Rutger Bregman (Utopia for Realists) summons a wealth of evidence that humanki...

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  • Added: Feb 24, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Confederate Monuments
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Connor Towne O'Neill
Separate but equal. That phrase came from the U.S. Supreme Court in 1896. It was a landmark decision known as Plessy v Ferguson that upheld the con...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Synchronicity
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Paul Halpern
There always seems to be a peculiar twist in understanding our world. How it works. Just when we think of have a grip on it, like a greased pig, it...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joseph McCarthy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Larry Tye
On the evening of February 9, 1950, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy dramatically announced that he had a list of over 200 members of the Communis...

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  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Island Stories
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: David Reynolds
The British and Americans have always had their similarities. More so now over the past four years. In 2016 The Brits voted to leave the European U...

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  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Elaine Tyler May
Long before COVID-19, America emerged as the most armed, fortified, imprisoned and bunkered nation on the planet. Add to that, we’ve become tribal ...

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  • Added: Apr 21, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
You Don’t Understand the 2nd Amendment
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jonathan Hennessey
There’s a free, feature length documentary available online. Its purpose is to expose what the Founders of the American Constitution actually sai...

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
One Long Night: Andrea Pitzer on the Global History of Concentration Camps
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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"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
The Fire is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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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...

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  • Added: Oct 15, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
Fault Lines in the Constitution revisited
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Founding Fathers images
They are an unexpected husband and wife team: the Levinson’s. Sanford is a constitutional scholar. Cynthia is an award-winning author of children’...

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  • Added: Jul 30, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2