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Bridging Political Divisions
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Alyson Spery
On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we explore political division. Research shows that polarization isn’t just something we see in politics or wi...

Bought by KSJE


  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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...

Bought by KCBX


  • 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...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 03, 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 ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, and KCBX


  • Added: May 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Role of Anarcho-Pacifism in Peace
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Perhaps, you’ve heard of “Pacifism” but have you heard of “Anarcho Pacifism.” What’s the difference between the two? On this edition of Peace Talk...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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...

Bought by KCBX


  • 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 ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 21, 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...

Bought by KCBX


  • 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...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
National Writers Series: Bob Giles
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three
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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
Spotlight on "Jimmy Carter-Rock 'n' Roll President" Documentary
From: Paul Ingles
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We talk with music documentary director Mary Wharton and writer Bill Flanagan. They’ve collaborated with others to create the documentary we’re spo...

Bought by KUCB


  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Returning Civility to Political Discourse
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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National polling in recent years has consistently reported that 2/3rds of those polled feel that there’s a major problem with civility in our natio...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
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...

Bought by KCBX


  • 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...

Bought by KCBX


  • 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 ...

Bought by KCBX


  • 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...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Resolving Conflict, “Town Meeting” Style
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Long before the United States became a nation and implemented American democracy as we know it today, there were town meetings. Nearly 400 years l...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Nov 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Kansas Poets Laureate: Part 1
From: New Letters on the Air
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Our celebration of State Poets Laureate continues with a look back at previous holders of the title in Kansas. Part one of this public reading feat...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Sep 04, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The End of Europe
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: James Kirchick
Europe is in crisis. The continent we have known since the end of World War II is quickly changing.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Delta Epiphany
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ellen Meacham
In the spring of 1967, Senator Robert F. Kennedy had an experience that changed his thinking about America, and his own responsibilities. His awake...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Florida: Liquid Landscape
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Michele Currie Navakas
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
Fault Lines in the Constitution
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Sanford Levinson
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
Peacemaking on Stage: OSLO
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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An engaging conversation with both the playwright and director of the 2017 Tony-Award Winning Best Play, OSLO. The play tracks the back channel ne...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Aug 23, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Despot's Accomplice
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Brian Klaas
By all appearances, the world is becoming less democratic.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Do You Bite Your Thumb At Us, Sir? On Mere Civility
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today, politicians and intellectuals warn that we face a crisis of civility and a veritable war of words polluting our public sphere. In liberal de...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2017
  • Length: 58:03