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Photographer and essayist Allan Sekula was a critic of capitalism and an influential theorist of documentary photography and photojournalism. In "S...
- Added: Jun 12, 2018
- Length: 58:19
For this first Tuesday of LGBT Pride Month we bring you, “Straightening Gayness: Mainstream Representation Under the Male Gaze” about television’s ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KTSW 89.9
- Added: Jun 05, 2018
- Length: 58:36
- Purchases: 2
What comes to the fore in this conversation with Rebecca Spang is that the French Revolution is likely best thought of as a civil war and in that ...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 58:37
From 1933 until the end of World War II, a number of Nazi units known as the Kuntschutz, plundered gold, silver and important art works from all ov...
- Added: Apr 25, 2018
- Length: 58:37
Will Davies, author of the Happiness Industry, has written in the London Review of Books that “Destroying privacy in ever more adventurous ways is ...
- Added: Apr 17, 2018
- Length: 58:18
The public University as we know it is in crisis, as business prerogatives overtake its values and executive-style leadership eats away at its budg...
- Added: Apr 10, 2018
- Length: 58:01
Our show today is Anarchy is Intersectional: Learning from Emma Goldman. Goldman, a feminist anarchist, was disdainful of what is now called “Lean ...
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- Added: Apr 03, 2018
- Length: 58:46
- Purchases: 2
Across the globe it was a year of countless uprisings. In the US it was the year of police violence against protesters at the Chicago Democratic Co...
- Added: Jan 31, 2018
- Length: 58:56
Elizabeth Anderson joins us to talk about her book Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It). In many workp...
- Added: Jan 23, 2018
- Length: 58:00
Dance in Chains, traces the history of modern political imprisonment from its origins in the mid-nineteenth century and draws on examples from regi...
- Added: Jan 17, 2018
- Length: 59:28
Today’s show is kin to last week’s, Honey From a Weed…but instead of seeing the human as capable of flourishing in concert with the natural, in thi...
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- Added: Dec 12, 2017
- Length: 58:55
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From within this crucible the revolutionary theorist, ruthless Red Army commander and plausible dictator in waiting, leader of the left opposition ...
- Added: Nov 07, 2017
- Length: 58:02
Hitler called him “half beast, half giant” and clearly saw a kind of reflection there. Kuromiya asserts that Stalin was a deeply singular personali...
- Added: Nov 01, 2017
- Length: 01:00:34
Today, the curious case of Benjamin Lay: Englishman, Quaker, cobbler, sailor, cultural shock firebrand, cave dweller, autodidact, animal liberation...
- Added: Oct 17, 2017
- Length: 58:10
Feminist writer, Zillah Eisenstein, author of "Feminism, Racism and the West" and "Manmade Breast Cancer" talks candidly about her personal struggl...
- Added: Sep 15, 2017
- Length: 29:00
From Katrina and Sandy to Harvey, Irma and José - how is climate change fueling these increasingly destructive hurricanes? Greg Dalton and his gues...
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- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 10
The Dialectic of Sex is widely considered the most influential book of Second Wave Feminism. In it Firestone argues that the biological sexual dich...
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- Added: Sep 12, 2017
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 1
The conviction of Alger Hiss for perjury in 1950, continues to define the terms of what it means to American. But the definition seems always profe...
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- Added: Sep 05, 2017
- Length: 58:00
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The idea of what it means to be human is changing. With countless catastrophic events looming, from climate instability to biotechnology and wars o...
- Added: Aug 30, 2017
- Length: 58:01
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
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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