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2202-03-13 Reading the Troubled Past
From: Philosophy Talk
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What should we do with literature and philosophy from a discredited moral past?

  • Added: Mar 14, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
2022-02-27 Is Postmodernism Really to Blame for Post-Truth?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Did postmodernism merely predict cynicism about the facts, or did it actually promote it?

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Vonnegut on Tralfamadore: Billy Pilgrim and PTSD
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In today's show we explore the history of recognizing the trauma experienced by soldiers in war - PTSD is only the most recent iteration of this di...

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  • Added: Jan 04, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 4
Soul Sister: The Limits of Empathy
From: Radio Diaries
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In 1969, a white journalist named Grace Halsell, published a book called Soul Sister. It was her account of living as a “black woman” in the United...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2021
  • Length: 12:18
Migdalia Cruz, MACBETH & Michael Blanding NORTH BY SHAKESPEARE
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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Shakespeare on the brain! We talk with Nuyorican playwright Migdalia Cruz about her adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth for modern audiences. Then...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2021
  • Length: 58:36
2021-09-05 (End of) Summer Reading List
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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With summer ending and some parts of our lives returning to some kind of normal, what should thoughtful people be reading?

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
Babo In the Sunshine: Herman Melville and the Tryal Rebellion
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Anthony Imbert. Wrapper illustration for “Life in Philadelphia” (ca. 1829-30).
Today we revisit the great novella of Herman Melville, “Benito Cereno,” serialized in 1855 in Putnam’s Magazine. Written with the US Civil War on t...

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Practicing Exile: Timothy Brennan on Edward Said
From: WFHB
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Edward Said, a Palestinian American, born in Jerusalem, was one of the most influential literary scholars in the United States, transforming the ac...

  • Added: May 04, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
How to Change the Education System, with Suzanne DeMallie
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
Caption: Cover of the book "Can You Hear Me Now?" by Suzanne DeMallie.
The education system can change top-down, or bottom-up. Author Suzanne DeMallie wrote “Can You Hear Me Now?” – a book about how parents and teache...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2021
  • Length: 59:36
Voices and Perspectives on Democracy
From: Generation Justice Admin
Caption: Right: Grace Lee Boggs, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Left: John Trudell
What is your perspective on Democracy? This week we explore what democracy means.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
2021-02-19 Climate Narratives with Elizabeth Kolbert and Kim Stanley Robinson
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In the past decade, narratives of a dystopian climate future have helped connect people with heroes in worlds decimated by climate disruption and i...

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
210219: Climate Narratives with Elizabeth Kolbert and Kim Stanley Robinson, 2/19/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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In the past decade, narratives of a dystopian climate future have helped connect people with heroes in worlds decimated by climate disruption and i...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
Frankenstein’s Children: Science, Politics, and Fiction after Mary Shelley
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Eileen Hunt Botting's new book, Artificial Life after Frankenstein, asks what are the obligations of humanity to the artificial creatures we make, ...

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  • Added: Feb 16, 2021
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 23: Young Blood with Matthew Gallagher
From: Justin Hudnall
Series: Incoming
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Before he would ever know it, Matt Gallagher was at the forefront of new veteran voices fighting the Global War on Terror. Literally. He unknowingl...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 52:09
2021-01-10 Comforting Conversations (Part 2)
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How can insights from the arts and humanities help us cope with difficult times?

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  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
2021-01-03 Comforting Conversations (Part 1)
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How can insights from the arts and humanities help us cope with difficult times?

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  • Added: Jan 02, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10
San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck
From: New Letters on the Air
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We begin Native American Heritage Month with Cherokee citizen, Kim Shuck, the author of the recently released poetry collection, WHOSE WATER. San F...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 05, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Out of a Brick Throat: How Poets and Poetry Matter
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: A drilling crew poses for the above photo in 1931 (without respirators) in the Hawks Nest Tunnel. Courtesy of Elkem Metals Collection, West Virginia State Archives.
Today, we’ll resurface three poets on the political Left who wrote during the 1930s and 40s: Muriel Rukeyser, Genevieve Taggard, and Martha Millet....

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  • Added: Sep 15, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
2020-08-23 (There's Still) Time for Summer Reading
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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There's still time for deep reading this summer (and our 500th episode).

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
2020-06-21 Jean-Paul Sartre
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What exactly is existentialism? How are we condemned to be free? And what’s so hellish about other people?

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  • Added: Jun 19, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
200515: Storytelling Through the Climate Crisis, 5/15/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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How do we confront the reality of a future that will be hauntingly different from today? Some authors are using fiction to create relatable narrati...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
2020-05-15 Storytelling Through the Climate Crisis
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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How do we confront the reality of a future that will be hauntingly different from today? Some authors are using fiction to create relatable narrati...

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  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
2021-02-14 What Is Love?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Do you them because they're lovable, or are they lovable because you love them?

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
2019-12-29 Ken Taylor Tribute
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Remembering Philosophy Talk's co-creator, chief cheerleader, and guiding light, Ken Taylor.

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  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Tell It Slant: The Truth of the Bombs Bursting in Air
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: B-24J Liberators of the 579th Bomb Squadron drop incendiary bombs made from fighter plane drop tanks filled with napalm on targets near Royan, France, Apr 15 1945.
H. Bruce Franklin (Crash Course) returns to help us connect lots of dots. He’ll argue, among other things, that we need to learn what three particu...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2019
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 1