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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...

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...

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  • 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 ...

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  • Added: May 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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
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
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
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.

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  • Added: Aug 15, 2018
  • 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...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • 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.

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  • Added: May 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jacob S. Hacker discusses "American Amnesia"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra talks with Jacob Hacker, author of "American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper."

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  • Added: Sep 02, 2016
  • Length: 30:30
  • Purchases: 1
Peace Talks Radio: JFK's Turn Towards Peace (59:00 / 54:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A conversation with James Douglass, author of "JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters". Douglass makes the case for his theory th...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2008
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 20