Barry Lynn's
Culture Shocks
from www.cultureshocks.com/shows |
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Program
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Creation
Date |
| W | 1/4/12 |
Ed Sanders' Fug You traces the flowering years of New York's downtown bohemia in the sixties.
| 12/16/11 |
| Th | 1/5/12 |
Differing views on the existence of unidentified flying objects.
| 12/22/11 |
| F | 1/6/12 |
Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig looks at how we arrived at the belief that business interests wield control over our legislature.
| 12/23/11 |
| W | 1/11/12 |
America's failure to educate its children; assessing the state of the judiciary in America.
| 1/3/12 |
| Th | 1/12/12 |
Amy Chua, author of "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom", and novelist Robin Cook.
| 1/5/12 |
| F | 1/13/12 |
In "Pity the Billionaire", Thomas Frank examines the mechanism by which dire economic circumstances have delivered unexpected political results.
| 1/6/12 |
| W | 1/18/12, 1/25/12 |
A journalist, activist, and women's health care pioneer chronicles three decades of work for reproductive rights.
| 1/9/12 |
| Th | 1/19/12 |
How Roger Williams shaped the nature of religion, political power, and individual rights in America.
| 1/12/12 |
| F | 1/20/12 |
Persuasive ways of steering people away from unfounded beliefs, bogus cures, etc.
| 1/13/12 |
| Th | 1/26/12, 2/2/12 |
Presidential adviser Jonathan Gruber explains the intricacies of the Affordable Care Act.
| 1/17/12 |
| F | 1/27/12, 2/3/12 |
Why modern conceptions of civil rights and civil liberties, and the modern state's protection of national security, health, safety, and the environment, are fully consistent with the Constitution's original meaning.
| 1/19/12 |
| W | 2/1/12 |
Gar Alperovitz on the new policies needed as we face large deficits; unemployment; terrorism; and loss of belief in equality, liberty, and democracy.
| 1/10/12 |
| W | 2/8/12 |
How social networks are opening us up to increasingly intrusive and anonymous surveillance.
| 1/30/12 |
| Th | 2/9/12 |
A history of the intersection between science and democracy in American life.
| 1/23/12 |
| F | 2/10/12 |
The Good News Club trys to convert children to fundamentalist Christianity in a public elementary school.
| 1/26/12 |
| W | 2/15/12 |
The National Center for Science Education has launched a new initiative to defend and support the teaching of climate change.
| 2/2/12 |
| Th | 2/16/12 |
The role information has played throughout history, and what is essential for everyone who strives to be smart, productive, and sane.
| 2/6/12 |
| F | 2/17/12 |
Why has confidence in the press declined so dramatically over the past 40 years?
| 2/9/12 |
| W | 2/22/12 |
How a partnership between the founder of a black college and the president of Sears brought thousands of modern schoolhouses to African American communities in the rural South.
| 2/10/12 |
| Th | 2/23/12 |
Rick Santorum vs. Mitt Romney; Christian and gay hate speech.
| 2/16/12 |
| F | 2/24/12 |
A group of intertwining stories that culminate in the historic 1947 collision of the Superman Radio Show and the Ku Klux Klan; journey with a wolf dog.
| 2/8/12 |
| W | 2/29/12 |
Jamal Joseph describes his personal odyssey - from the streets of Harlem to Riker's Island and Leavenworth to the halls of Columbia - in "Panther Baby."
| 2/21/12 |
| Th | 3/1/12 |
Saloma Miller Furlong, author of "Why I Left the Amish."
| 2/22/12 |
| F | 3/2/12 |
Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig discusses super PACs and our democracy.
| 2/23/12 |
| W | 3/7/12 |
Voter apathy and America's current political culture; how the Catholic Church almost came to accept birth control.
| 2/27/12 |
| Th | 3/8/12 |
Sean Faircloth discusses his new book, Attack of the Theocrats, which examines the crumbling of the wall of separation between church and state-and offers a specific plan for rebuilding it.
| 2/29/12 |
| F | 3/9/12 |
A high school student says that her rights as an atheist were limited and unjust when compared to Christian students after officials blocked the publication of her column, No Rights: The Life of an Atheist.
| 3/1/12 |
| W | 3/14/12 |
How Fox News, under its president Roger Ailes, changed from a right-leaning news network into a partisan advocate for the Republican Party.
| 3/2/12 |
| Th | 3/15/12 |
Has the mainstream media's characterization of the Tea Party movement been distorted in a way that prevents meaningful political dialogue?
| 3/5/12 |
| F | 3/16/12 |
"Hot Cripple: An Incurable Smart-ass Takes on the Health Care System and Lives to Tell the Tale" is a keenly observed account of the cracks in our medical and social welfare system.
| 3/6/12 |
| W | 3/21/12 |
The story of a grievously mishandled murder case that put a twenty-three-year-old man on death row.
| 3/7/12 |
| Th | 3/22/12 |
The violations of civil liberties in the U.S. that have accelerated over the past decade-and their direct impact on our lives.
| 3/12/12 |
| F | 3/23/12 |
How one man learned to live, sanely and happily, without earning, receiving, or spending a single cent.
| 3/14/12 |
| W | 3/28/12 |
How we can reinforce our household values and educate our children on how to avoid online misbehavior in the age of iPads and cell phones.
| 3/15/12 |
| Th | 3/29/12 |
Russ Feingold details our nation's collective failure to respond properly to the challenges posed by the post-9/11 era.
| 3/19/12 |
| F | 3/30/12 |
The differences between the popular notions of race and the scientific view of human diversity.
| 3/20/12 |
| W | 4/4/12 |
Predictions on sexuality in public life for 2012 and taking on Rush Limbaugh.
| 3/21/12 |
| Th | 4/5/12 |
A critique of the president and the case for saying that supporters should not give up on him.
| 3/22/12 |
| F | 4/6/12 |
The people who are reshaping media for a two-way world, whose ideas are changing how we play, how we chill, and how we think.
| 3/23/12 |
| W | 4/11/12 |
The story of Saul Alinsky, the "father" of community organizing..
| 3/28/12 |
| Th | 4/12/12 |
The drama and high comedy of the Nixon presidency through the urgent perspectives of seven characters we thought we knew.
| 3/30/12 |
| F | 4/13/12 |
An insider's account of the international gamble to prosecute those responsible for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, and to redress some of the bloodiest human rights atrocities in our time.
| 4/2/12 |
| W | 4/18/12 |
The life story of Pat Buchanan, the 3-time presidential candidate, Nixon confidant, White House communications director during Iran-Contra, pundit, and bestselling author.
| 4/4/12 |
| Th | 4/19/12 |
Green economy pioneer Van Jones reflects on his journey from grassroots outsider to White House insider.
| 4/5/12 |
| F | 4/20/12 |
A searing indictment of the "pharmaceuticalization" of medicine blamed for a growing number of deaths and disabilities.
| 4/11/12 |
| W | 4/25/12 |
The dilemmas faced by a president assailed by disappointed progressives and defiantly obstructionist Republicans.
| 4/16/12 |
| Th | 4/26/12 |
"Candidate Without a Prayer," the engaging autobiography of Herb Silverman.
| 4/17/12 |
| F | 4/27/12 |
The National Day of Silence calls attention to the silencing effect of anti-LGBT bullying in schools.
| 4/20/12 |
| W | 5/2/12 |
How cause-related marketing desensitizes the public by putting a pleasant face on complex problems.
| 4/19/12 |
| Th | 5/3/12 |
A new assessment of leadership during crisis that ensures the protection of democratic values.
| 4/24/12 |
| F | 5/4/12 |
Two authors combine history, current events, and psychological and cultural analysis to reveal the influence of apocalyptic thinking on America's past, present, and future.
| 4/27/12 |
| W | 5/9/12 |
The story of Elzéard Bouffier, who devoted his entire life to reforesting a desolate portion of Provence, in southern France.
| 4/30/12 |
| Th | 5/10/12 |
How the skeleton saint Santa Muerte has become the patron saint of drug traffickers.
| 5/1/12 |
| F | 5/11/12 |
Eric Berkowitz's "Sex and Punishment" investigates the entire sweep of Western sex law.
| 5/8/12 |
| W | 5/16/12 |
A conservative look at single working motherhood; "The Obama Hate Machine" - how the right has taken rhetoric to slanderous new levels in attacking the president.
| 5/10/12 |
| Th | 5/17/12 |
"The Presidents Club" explores the club as a hidden instrument of power that has changed the course of history.
| 5/14/12 |
| F | 5/18/12 |
Steve Coll's investigation of the true extent of ExxonMobil's power.
| 5/15/12 |
| W | 5/23/12 |
The homeless man with a golden voice in a video that went viral on YouTube.
| 5/16/12 |
| Th | 5/24/12 |
A Johns Hopkins neuroscientist explains how pleasure affects us at the most fundamental level, in our brain.
| 5/17/12 |
| F | 5/25/12 |
"The Awful Grace of God" chronicles a multi-year effort to kill Martin Luther King Jr. by a group of the nation's most violent right-wing extremists.
| 5/18/12 |
| W | 5/30/12 |
The discovery of a molecule that makes compassion part of our nature as humans.
| 5/21/12 |
| Th | 5/31/12 |
The changing religious and political environment on issues such as abortion, gay marriage, environmental use and care, race, war, poverty, and the imbalance of world wealth.
| 5/22/12 |
| F | 6/1/12 |
A doctor tells the story of his father, who was forced to participate in covert human experiments conducted by the CIA.
| 5/23/12 |
| W | 6/6/12 |
What's at stake for women in the 2012 election and in the years beyond.
| 5/29/12 |
| Th | 6/7/12 |
Lawsuit against Coca-Cola, the maker of VitaminWater drinks, because of deceptive marketing claims; politics and religion.
| 5/31/12 |
| F | 6/8/12 |
Is the attack on exotic dance part of the activist Christian Right's "grand design" to supplant constitutional democracy in America with a Bible-based theocracy?
| 6/1/12 |
| W | 6/13/12 |
A professor who received threats and lost her adjunct position after taking a public stand against Christian crosses on campus.
| 6/5/12 |
| Th | 6/14/12 |
New York Mayor Bloomberg wants to limit marijuana arrests.
| 6/6/12 |
| F | 6/15/12 |
How a fundamental shift in the character of American society has come about, why it threatens our democracy, and how we can begin to reverse it.
| 6/8/12 |
| W | 6/20/12 |
An anniversary at the Supreme Court regarding the use of birth control as right-wing forces try to take that right away.
| 6/11/12 |
| Th | 6/21/12 |
Looking back in history to the political decisions that helped birth our billionaires, then forward to the cutting-edge research into the dangers posed by concentrated wealth.
| 6/12/12 |
| F | 6/22/12 |
The financial connections between government and conservative religious groups that are systematically taking away your rights are described in "America's War on Sex."
| 6/14/12 |
| W | 6/27/12 |
The administration's struggle to enact a coherent set of policies in a time of global turmoil; Obama's career in the context of decades of black activism.
| 6/20/12 |
| Th | 6/28/12 |
Dangers of "The Shareholder Value Myth"; how risk taking transforms our body chemistry.
| 6/21/12 |
| F | 6/29/12 |
A searing look at areas in America that have been offered up for exploitation in the name of profit, progress, and technological advancement.
| 6/22/12 |
| W | 7/4/12 |
The history, science, and economics of food supply; mountaintop mining around the country.
| 6/25/12 |
| Th | 7/5/12 |
The infiltrator of bankers behind the Medellín cartel - how federal agents arrested over 40 high-ranking criminals.
| 6/26/12 |
| F | 7/6/12 |
The president of the PFLAG chapter in Odessa, Texas, says Christians can change their minds on homosexuality.
| 6/29/12 |
| W | 7/11/12 |
A history of the most influential progressive leaders of the twentieth century and beyond.
| 7/2/12 |
| Th | 7/12/12 |
When a Mojave Desert hermit killed a deputy sheriff it led to the biggest manhunt in modern California history.
| 7/5/12 |
| F | 7/13/12 |
How a misguided campaign by the Republican-led House to weaken, block, or delay needed measures that defend our air, water, wildlife, and lands put our nation at risk.
| 7/6/12 |
| W | 7/18/12 |
The story of San Francisco in the turbulent years between 1967 and 1982 - and of the city's ultimate rebirth.
| 7/9/12 |
| Th | 7/19/12 |
Formerly-secret industry documents show how the cigarette came to be the most widely-used drug on the planet, with six trillion sticks sold per year.
| 7/11/12 |
| F | 7/20/12 |
How our financial system has increasingly focused on maximizing profits - particularly once large banks got involved.
| 7/12/12 |
| W | 7/25/12 |
Nikki Stern: Hope in Small Doses.
| 7/13/12 |
| Th | 7/26/12 |
What's going to be important in the campaign for the presidency?| A history of American ideas about life and death.
| 7/16/12 |
| W | 8/1/12 |
Similarity of alleged sexual abuse of minors at Penn State University to the clerical sexual abuse cases in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
| 7/23/12 |
| Th | 8/2/12 |
Immigration across our southern border - viewing "the other" with compassion or with fear.
| 7/24/12 |
| F | 8/3/12 |
Songwriter Townes Van Zandt - his background and troubled early years, his life on the road as a wandering folk singer and the demons that pursued him, and the brilliance and enduring beauty of his songs.
| 6/15/12 |
| W | 8/8/12 |
A chronicle of America's troubling relationship with race through four interrelated stories.
| 7/20/12 |
| Th | 8/9/12, 8/16/12 |
The president of The Freethought Society discusses bigotry against the non-theist community.
| 7/25/12 |
| F | 8/10/12 |
A federal district judge says a corporation can exercise religion, and another federal judge, in Arizona, has upheld a law to limit abortions beyond 20 weeks.
| 7/31/12 |
| W | 8/15/12 |
After the mass shooting in a Sikh temple near Milwaukee, is it time to take common sense measures to make it harder for some people to obtain weapons?
| 8/7/12 |
| F | 8/17/12 |
How enthusiasm for Hitler within churches and universities effectively gave Germans permission to participate in the Nazi regime.
| 8/6/12 |
| Th | 8/23/12 |
How the American middle class has been systematically impoverished and its prospects thwarted in favor of a new ruling elite.
| 8/13/12 |
| F | 8/24/12 |
An exposé of everything that is wrong with Washington; the tools America needs to keep competitive globally.
| 8/14/12 |
| W | 8/29/12 |
How independent voters have been upending the political establishment for thirty years - and how they'll decide the future of American politics.
| 8/20/12 |
| Th | 8/30/12 |
The story behind President Obama's $800 billion stimulus bill, one of the most important and least understood pieces of legislation in our history.
| 8/21/12 |
| F | 8/31/12 |
What causes a person to kill innocent strangers in the name of religion?
| 8/23/12 |
| W | 9/5/12 |
Should politicians keep out of the Chick-fil-A same sex marriage controversy? How parents can become and remain the most credible and influential resource about sexuality in their children's lives.
| 8/2/12 |
| Th | 9/6/12 |
DNA exonerations have exposed how often we have convicted the innocent and let the guilty go free.
| 9/4/12 |
| F | 9/7/12 |
A disgruntled liberal from the Northwest makes the unabashedly controversial, often uproarious, and always thought-provoking case for southern secession.
| 9/5/12 |
| W | 9/12/12 |
Book about murder case gives us a heartbreaking, angry indictment of the legal system.
| 9/7/12 |
| Th | 9/13/12, 9/20/12 |
An exploration of the many ways government programs have improved the quality of life in America..
| 9/10/12 |
| F | 9/14/12 |
The radically different ways men and women today earn, learn, spend and couple up.
| 9/11/12 |
| W | 9/19/12 |
Seductive fallacies have led to an epidemic of misinformation on a number of science topics.
| 9/12/12 |
| F | 9/21/12 |
How important legislative battles devolve into struggles not over principle but over party advantage.
| 9/18/12 |
| W | 9/26/12 |
The New York Times Magazine's original "Ethicist" helps readers locate their own internal ethical compasses as he delivers answers to life's most challenging dilemmas.
| 9/19/12 |
| Th | 9/27/12 |
Bob Balaban: The Creature From the Seventh Grade.
| 9/14/12 |
| F | 9/28/12 |
The analytical revolution upending the way political campaigns are run in the 21st century.
| 9/20/12 |
| W | 10/3/12 |
How a group of well-mannered, largely apolitical women, raised in the 1940s and 1950s, stood up for their rights - and what happened after they did.
| 9/24/12 |
| Th | 10/4/12 |
"Future Perfect" makes the case that despite past political gridlock, progress is still possible, and new solutions are on the rise.
| 9/25/12 |
| F | 10/5/12 |
Reproductive rights in the 2012 campaign.
| 9/27/12 |
| W | 10/10/12 |
Author talks about race in honest, unfamiliar terms, acknowledging both Republican and Democratic Party political mistakes, and her own.
| 9/28/12 |
| Th | 10/11/12 |
A blueprint for a national leadership movement to transform the way the public thinks about giving.
| 9/17/12 |
| F | 10/12/12 |
How policy choices made by elected leaders over the past 4 decades have resulted in the deck being stacked against working Americans.
| 2/10/11 |
| W | 10/17/12 |
Anti-choice lawmakers seek to prevent women from using their money to buy abortion coverage.
| 2/9/11 |
| Th | 10/18/12 |
Robert Kurzban shows us that the key to understanding our behavioral inconsistencies lies in understanding the human mind's many specialized units, designed by the process of evolution by natural selection.
| 2/3/11 |
| F | 10/19/12, 10/26/12 |
Journalist Frank Koller tells us how a manufacturing company is taking a new approach in Spark.Then, Julia Duin talks about Days of Fire and Glory.
| 3/3/10 |
| W | 10/24/12 |
Crystal Feimster: Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching.
| 11/23/09 |
| Th | 10/25/12 |
Barbara Ehrenreich's Bright Sided knocks America's love affair with positive thinking and calls for a new commitment to realism.
| 11/13/09 |
| W | 10/31/12 |
Josh Horwitz and co-author Casey Anderson expose the gun lobby's core philosophy as a threat to the future of our democracy in Guns, Democracy and the Insurrectionist Idea.
| 6/24/09 |
| Th | 11/1/12 |
Jeff Sharlet talks about The Family and the house for Republican sex scandals.
| 7/21/09 |
| F | 11/2/12 |
Thom Hartmann, progressive radio talk host and author of Threshold: The Crisis of Western Civilization.
| 7/28/09 |
| W | 11/7/12 |
The Health Care Industry vs. Health Reform with Wendell Potter.
| 7/30/09 |
| Th | 11/8/12 |
A driver was suspended for refusing to drive a bus that had an atheist ad. Whose rights were trampled?
| 8/20/09 |
| F | 11/9/12 |
Jim Hightower on right-wing populism and health care town hall meetings.
| 8/24/09 |
| W | 11/14/12 |
The all volunteer army and "don't ask, don't tell."
| 11/24/09 |
| Th | 11/15/12 |
An author and physicist covers a range of topics from nuclear weapons and waste and global warming to 9/11.
| 9/24/09 |
| F | 11/16/12 |
The search for meaning from the author of "Occult America."
| 9/21/09 |
| W | 11/21/12 |
Kenneth Miller, professor and author of "Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul."
| 1/22/09 |
| Th | 11/22/12 |
In "The Age of American Unreason", Susan Jacoby argues that our current cult of unreason has deadly and destructive consequences.
| 2/24/09 |
| F | 11/23/12 |
Former Alaskan senator, Mike Gravel on filibustering Republicans and toxic assets; a sex column causes controversy at Montana university.
| 3/24/09 |
| W | 11/28/12 |
Author Si Khan talks about "Creative Community Organizing."
| 3/1/10 |
| Th | 11/29/12 |
The internal strife that led to the decline of the Christian Coalition.
| 8/27/09 |
| F | 11/30/12 |
Jay Wexler traveled to areas where big church state Supreme Court issues came from in "Holy Hullabaloos: A Road Trip to the Battlegrounds of the Church State Wars."
| 5/18/09 |
| W | 12/5/12 |
A college student's chronicles of a semester at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University.
| 4/28/09 |
| Th | 12/6/12 |
Michelle Goldberg, author of "The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World."
| 4/22/09 |
| F | 12/7/12 |
CEO and editor-in-chief of Beliefnet, author Steven Waldman with "Founding Faith."
| 3/31/09 |
| W | 12/12/12 |
Television writer, producer and novelist, Dan Merchant with his book "Lord, Save Us From Your Followers: Why is the Gospel of Love Dividing America?"
| 12/17/08 |
| Th | 12/13/12 |
November 18th marked the anniversary of the Jonestown massacre where 900 Americans died in 1978. An investigative reporter who visited Jonestown the day of the suicide tells his story.
| 11/19/08 |
| F | 12/14/12 |
Rabbi David Wolpe, author of "Why Faith Matters."
| 11/14/08 |
| W | 12/19/12 |
John Shelby Spong: Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World. (repeated from 11/23/11)
| 11/9/11 |
| Th | 12/20/12 |
Ross Douthat: Bad Religion. (repeated from 7/11/12)
| 6/27/12 |
| F | 12/21/12 |
Randall Stephens and Karl Giberson on the anti-intellectual populism undergirding evangelicalism. (repeated from 11/2/11)
| 10/24/11 |
| W | 12/26/12 |
Martin Marty: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's "Letters and Papers from Prison": A Biography. (repeated from 9/7/11)
| 8/23/11 |
| Th | 12/27/12 |
The president of Planned Parenthood, Gloria Feldt, talks about her book, "Behind Every Choice is a Story," a blend of statistics and recounting the personal stories of women who made the difficult decision of whether or not to have a child.
| 6/30/03 |
| F | 12/28/12 |
In "Faith No More" Phil Zuckerman draws on in-depth interviews with people who have left religion. (repeated from 12/28/11)
| 12/12/11 |
