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José Martí, who would die in the Cuban Revolution against Spain at the age of 42, believed that knowledge and understanding was a collective constr...
- Added: Aug 22, 2017
- Length: 58:00
Today, we confront the boots on the ground with political scientist and author, Christopher Sebastian Parker, who, along with his research partner ...
- Added: Aug 22, 2017
- Length: 58:11
For this 90-minute special, our guest is Nancy MacLean, Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University and author of Democracy in Chains...
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- Added: Aug 22, 2017
- Length: 01:28:04
- Purchases: 1
Cynthia Wolfe joins us to discuss her “Platinum” ranked audio program “Nuclear Nightingales” which consists of readings from the oral history Voice...
- Added: Aug 04, 2017
- Length: 57:43
In our show today with Sara Farris we’ll ask, what’s behind the right-wing demand for women’s rights in the context of immigration (hint, it’s the ...
- Added: Jul 11, 2017
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 2
We talk with historian Timothy Snyder about his book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. The book is a kind of vaccine to inocul...
- Added: Jul 06, 2017
- Length: 01:58:02
In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. Or in oth...
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- Added: Jun 27, 2017
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 2
Our primary task for this 90-minute Interchange, and it seems a kind of irony, is to find a way to define Democracy away from our current conceptio...
- Added: Jun 21, 2017
- Length: 01:29:01
The author has plenty to say about Washington and the day-to-day life of a senator, along with stories about growing up in Minnesota & his years on...
- Added: Jun 14, 2017
- Length: 09:48
Regardless of your politics, regardless of her politics, it’s hard to argue that Hillary Clinton hasn’t been on the receiving end of a constant and...
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 01:28:01
Kate Millett’s 1970 book, Sexual Politics, is a classic text of Second Wave Feminism, finding sexism and subjection inherent in the institutions of...
- Added: May 30, 2017
- Length: 58:00
We’re joined by guitarist, producer, composer and author Dave Randall. His book, Sound System, newly out from Pluto Press, is an insider’s view of ...
- Added: May 23, 2017
- Length: 01:28:01
Margaret Atwood’s response to those who might object to the assertion that the dystopian catastrophe of The Handmaid’s Tale cannot happen here. “Wa...
- Added: May 10, 2017
- Length: 57:38
Today’s show is about for-profit colleges and universities–or the Predatory Education Business. If you’re surprised to hear predatory and for-profi...
- Added: May 10, 2017
- Length: 58:13
Direct action and reform politics meet in Apartheid South Africa in playwright Athol Fugard’s 1989 play My Children! My Africa! Within the ruling c...
- Added: Apr 25, 2017
- Length: 58:00
How closely does the story of climate denial mirror the story of tobacco denial? For decades, cigarette makers downplayed the dangers of smoking wi...
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- Added: Apr 03, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
Today, we’ll take a look at the development and destruction of Black Populism in the post-bellum South, discovering the strategies, institutions, a...
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- Added: Feb 22, 2017
- Length: 58:02
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of Overheard, two Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historians.
First Doris Kearns Goodwin on Teddy Roosevelt followed by Jon Me...
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- Added: Feb 21, 2017
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
Today our guest, Thea Riofrancos, suggests populism is the not the problem, as so many in the “center” (left and right) fear, but the answer to the...
- Added: Feb 14, 2017
- Length: 58:01
Nik Nerburn grew up in northern Minnesota and is working as a photojournalist and documentary filmmaker. He recently covered the presidential inau...
- Added: Feb 10, 2017
- Length: 09:41
What’s the future for California with a Donald Trump White House? The country's biggest and bluest state is at odds with the emerging administrati...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 59:00
What is the legacy of this history? We are witnessing this dismissive denigration and abuse of people right now, it’s not 1616 or 1816 but 2016…and...
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- Added: Dec 06, 2016
- Length: 58:15
- Purchases: 1
He straddles the more essential American Century, from the failure of Reconstruction to the March on Washington, not demarcated by round numbers an...
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- Added: Dec 01, 2016
- Length: 58:03
- Purchases: 2
WFHB’s longest-running public affairs program, Interchange, wants to talk about everything, any topic, in a desire to make connections across the c...
- Added: Sep 06, 2016
- Length: 57:11
Just a moment of watching the daily activities of our national public life reveals that ‘performance’ is consequential — far beyond the confines of...
- Added: Aug 30, 2016
- Length: 57:27
