Barry Lynn's
Culture Shocks
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Broadcast Date |
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Audio file | Creation Date |
1/4/10 |
Ron Kessler on White House party crashers and Bishop Harry Jackson on same sex marriage in DC
| mp3 | 12/3/09 |
1/11/10 |
Author Jody Heymann on U.S. working conditions and Catholic League President William Donohue on gay priests
| mp3 | 11/30/09 |
1/18/10 |
Journalists Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe discuss what made Sarah Palin a superstar
| mp3 | 11/17/09 |
1/25/10 |
Michael Specter confronts the widespread fear of science
| mp3 | 12/18/09 |
2/1/10 |
Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United vs FEC with law prof. Jamin Raskin, then the religious right, federal government and abstinence in the schools with ACLU attorney Naomi Shatz
| mp3 | 1/13/10 |
2/8/10 |
Political commentator Douglas Schoen takes us on a behind the scenes look at the corridors of power
| mp3 | 1/5/10 |
2/15/10 |
Haiti rescue efforts and immigration policy with Fritz Gutwein from the Quixote Center and Haiti Reborn; MA Senate election
| mp3 | 1/20/10 |
2/22/10 |
Talk host Michael Medved on The 5 Big Lies About American Business and Dr. Henri Treadwell on denial of public assistance to drug offenders
| mp3 | 1/11/10 |
3/1/10 |
Voodoo Histories with author David Aaronovitch
| mp3 | 2/17/10 |
3/8/10 |
Author Niels Nielsen talks about God in the Obama Era and Barry Lynn gets some things off his chest
| mp3 | 2/18/10 |
3/15/10 |
Charles Pelligrino takes the Last Train From Hiroshima
| mp3 | 2/19/10 |
3/22/10 |
Professor and author, Rebecca Sager examines how and why states have been creating faith based policies in Faith, Politics and Power
| mp3 | 2/22/10 |
3/29/10 |
Michael Shelden, author of Mark Twain: Man in White
| mp3 | 2/26/10 |
4/5/10 |
Brenda Peterson: crisis of faith; Patricia Wilkes & Devry Bruch: sisters reunited after adoption scam
| mp3 | 3/12/10 |
4/6/10 |
Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch
| mp3 | 3/25/10 |
4/7/10 |
Nate Cardozo of Electronic Frontier Foundation; former UN weapons inspector David Albright
| mp3 | 3/18/10 |
4/12/10 |
Homer Hickam, former miner and writer, on mine safety; the vote for felons
| mp3 | 4/6/10 |
4/13/10 |
Judge James Gray on Obama's marijuana policy; Alan Sipress, author of Fatal Strain
| mp3 | 12/29/09 |
4/14/10 |
Rob Boston, author of Why the Religious Right is Wrong
| mp3 | 6/27/03 |
4/19/10 |
2010 Jefferson Muzzle awards; Nebraska law to criminalize abortions
| mp3 | 4/15/10 |
4/20/10 |
Political commentator, Debbie Schlussel, turns on her fellow conservative, Sean Hannity
| mp3 | 4/8/10 |
4/21/10 |
Rogue priests uncovered in the Catholic church; the right wing Christian militia, Hutaree
| mp3 | 4/5/10 |
4/26/10 |
Scientific fraud; wrongful institutionalization in a mental hospital
| mp3 | 4/16/10 |
4/27/10 |
Richard Clarke on future cyber war; the rise of anti-government groups
| mp3 | 4/21/10 |
4/28/10 |
Earth Day discussion with Bill McKibben
| mp3 | 4/22/10 |
5/3/10 |
Bob Wynn on his memoir; weddings for same sex couples in Washington, D.C.
| mp3 | 3/10/10 |
5/4/10 |
Dr. Lewis M. Cohen on how we treat patients who are dying and suffering
| mp3 | 4/26/10 |
5/5/10 |
Depictions of dog fighting as free speach; Rob Boston on the Supreme Court "Cross" case
| mp3 | 4/28/10 |
5/10/10 |
A conservative political commentator and author holds the media accountable for what she says is unapologetic bigotry
| mp3 | 4/29/10 |
5/11/10 |
The environmental catastrophe of noise pollution
| mp3 | 4/30/10 |
5/12/10 |
The story of four soldiers who perpetrated one of the most heinous war crimes by U.S. forces during the Iraq war
| mp3 | 5/3/10 |
5/17/10 |
Are radicals running the White House? Journalist and author Robert Knight gives his view.
| mp3 | 5/5/10 |
5/18/10 |
Christine Stansell, historian and author, tells the story of a great democratic movements in "The Feminist Promise".
| mp3 | 5/12/10 |
5/19/10 |
Constitutional scholar Linda Monk talks about her objections to the Elena Kagan nomination and Ben Wildavsky argues for the globalization of higher education.
| mp3 | 5/13/10 |
5/24/10 |
Inside the U.S. Supreme Court; The Other Wes Moore
| mp3 | 5/18/10 |
5/25/10 |
Henry E. Scott's new book, Shocking True Story, provides proof that our paparazzi-prone times are nothing new.
| mp3 | 5/21/10 |
5/26/10 |
Miscarriage law proposal in Utah; womens' rights and political power
| mp3 | 3/17/10 |
5/31/10 |
Terry Bisson's satire of the bestselling Left Behind series
| mp3 | 5/28/10 |
6/1/10 |
Joseph Foy helps us to make sense of the American political system through popular culture in Homer Simpson Goes to Washington
| mp3 | 5/26/10 |
6/2/10 |
Hampton Sides follows James Earl Ray in a minute by minute account of the King assassination
| mp3 | 5/24/10 |
6/7/10 |
Prof. David Harrell's biography of Pat Robertson portrays him as a centrist within the Pentecostal movement and a major player in spreading American Christianity around the world.
| mp3 | 6/1/10 |
6/8/10 |
Wayne Karlin returns to Viet-Nam in Wandering Souls; Rita Cosby's memoir, Quiet Hero, is about her father.
| mp3 | 6/2/10 |
6/9/10 |
Simon Rich's wickedly funny novel, Elliot Allagash, is about all of the things that money can buy and the one or two things that it can't.
| mp3 | 6/4/10 |
6/14/10 |
Primary wins for women; adultery and prostitution in the US
| mp3 | 6/9/10 |
6/15/10 |
The many causes of the recent financial crisis
| mp3 | 6/10/10 |
6/16/10 |
Jane Fonda and the myth of Hanoi Jane
| mp3 | 6/11/10 |
6/21/10 |
Freedom Summer in Mississippi, 1964
| mp3 | 6/14/10 |
6/22/10 |
How religious fundamentalists have begun promoting creationism outside the U.S.
| mp3 | 6/15/10 |
6/23/10 |
Chronicles of George Carlin's life and career
| mp3 | 6/17/10 |
6/28/10 |
Freedom Summer in Mississippi, 1964 [repeat]
| mp3 | 6/14/10 |
6/29/10 |
U.S. Supreme Court rules that a law school in California can deny recognition to a Christian student group that bars admission to homosexuals
| mp3 | 6/28/10 |
6/30/10 |
Killing of a seventeen-year-old Tibetan nun fleeing to India by Chinese border guards.
| mp3 | 6/25/10 |
7/5/10 |
New social studies standards approved by Texas State Board of Education; city council prayer
| mp3 | 6/23/10 |
7/6/10 |
Billboard on Billy Graham Parkway promoting atheism vandalized
| mp3 | 6/30/10 |
7/7/10 |
Medea Benjamin of CodePink on Afghanistan; medical marijuana
| mp3 | 7/1/10 |
7/12/10 |
Erotion of our freedoms by global terrorism and other threats
| mp3 | 6/29/10 |
7/13/10 |
Retired Episcopal priest and pre-eminent voice for progressive Christianity , John Shelby Spong on his new book "Eternal Life: A New Vision"
| mp3 | 9/8/09 |
7/14/10 |
Austin Ruse, president of Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute on the UN Feminist Conference; sex therapist Dr. Marty Klein
| mp3 | 3/8/10 |
7/19/10 |
Brian McLaren, author of A New Kind of Christianity
| mp3 | 3/5/10 |
7/20/10 |
An Emmy award winning TV reporter tells us what broadcast journalists are not telling us
| mp3 | 1/4/10 |
7/21/10 |
Is there a thin line between church and state? Hear Regent University's Dr. Charles Dunn, author of The Future of Religion in American Politics
| mp3 | 1/16/09 |
7/26/10 |
In Surrender, author Bruce Bawer claims that silence, fear and political correctness in our media, government and academic institutions threaten our most valuable civil right - free speech.
| mp3 | 7/19/10 |
7/27/10 |
John Atlas' book, Seeds of Change, describes what really happened in ACORN's massive voter registration drives and why the community organizing group triggered a conservative assault by Fox News and the Republican Party.
| mp3 | 7/20/10 |
7/28/10 |
In The Eyes of Willie McGee Alex Heard tells a moving story of race and retribution in the deep South that says as much about Mississippi today as it does about the past.
| mp3 | 7/21/10 |
8/2/10 |
In A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy Wesley J. Smith argues that humans matter more than animals.
| mp3 | 7/26/10 |
8/3/10 |
What happened in the rape convictions of a polygamous sect leader?
| mp3 | 7/28/10 |
8/4/10 |
American soldiers who were on the frontline of the "war on terror" reveal how their Abu Ghraib orders came from the top.
| mp3 | 7/29/10 |
8/9/10 |
"Rapture Ready!" author Daniel Radosh looks at Christian pop culture.
| mp3 | 8/2/10 |
8/10/10 |
Attorney, professor and author Andrea Lyon argues that, no matter their guilt or innocence, death row inmates deserve a chance at redemption in "Angel of Death Row".
| mp3 | 8/3/10 |
8/11/10 |
The economics editor of the Wall Street Journal explores what, if any, Federal Reserve policies have worked and why it didn't see disaster coming.
| mp3 | 8/6/10 |
8/16/10 |
An author looks at the daily lives of five survivors of the Nagasaki atomic bombing.
| mp3 | 8/9/10 |
8/17/10 |
Robert Walker of the Population Institute is critical of those who take a Pollyanna approach to population growth.
| mp3 | 8/10/10 |
8/18/10 |
Widespread courtroom failures and how the professionals who work in the system fail to see the harm they are doing to the people they serve.
| mp3 | 8/11/10 |
8/23/10 |
New York Times Magazine writer examines oil's indelible impact on the countries that produce it and the people who possess it.
| mp3 | 8/13/10 |
8/24/10 |
The true story of a man who helped the Woodstock music festival take place; new video game aimed at preventing violence against women.
| mp3 | 8/17/10 |
8/25/10 |
Expert on terrorism and post-traumatic stress disorder examines the horrors of trauma and denial.
| mp3 | 8/18/10 |
8/30/10 |
Have Bush's wars become Obama's?
| mp3 | 8/20/10 |
8/31/10 |
Is there a revolution in the air? Are the rich in America drifting to the left?
| mp3 | 8/24/10 |
9/1/10 |
The details behind Glenn Beck's rise to prominence and what he stands for.
| mp3 | 8/25/10 |
9/6/10 |
Author Jon Krakauer reveals the real Pat Tillman.
| mp3 | 8/19/10 |
9/7/10 |
A look at homelessness in San Francisco and poverty in the United States.
| mp3 | 8/31/10 |
9/8/10 |
Why do top universities cost so much and is it worth it?
| mp3 | 9/1/10 |
9/13/10 |
The constitutionality of moving the NYC mosque to state property; religious intolerance.
| mp3 | 9/9/10 |
9/14/10 |
How Hispanics are revitalizing our declining economy and energizing our distressed troops.
| mp3 | 9/8/10 |
9/15/10 |
How the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami.
| mp3 | 9/10/10 |
9/20/10, 9/27/10 |
A look inside the Tea Party movement.
| mp3 | 9/15/10 |
9/21/10, 9/28/10 |
A sociologist and historian looks at the mythology of the Old South.
| mp3 | 9/13/10 |
9/22/10 |
Does a light skin give a black presidential candidate an advantage?
| mp3 | 9/14/10 |
9/29/10 |
Gay Americans in the armed forces.
| mp3 | 9/22/10 |
10/4/10 |
Nixon White House conspiracy to assassinate a journalist; Bible politics.
| mp3 | 9/28/10 |
10/5/10 |
Cell phone radiation and cell phone industry cover-up.
| mp3 | 9/29/10 |
10/6/10 |
Elements of religious beliefs that are incompatible with high public office.
| mp3 | 9/30/10 |
10/11/10 |
C Street House in Washington D.C.is home to efforts to transform the very fabric of American democracy.
| mp3 | 10/4/10 |
10/12/10 |
Over the last few decades, the Supreme Court and federal appellate courts have undergone a dramatic shift to the right due to a determined effort by right-wing lawmakers and presidents to reinterpret the Constitution by reshaping the judiciary.
| mp3 | 10/6/10 |
10/13/10 |
Historian Thaddeus Russell demonstrates that those on the fringes of society with subversive lifestyles helped legitimize the taboo and made America the land of the free.
| mp3 | 10/7/10 |
10/18/10 |
How white Americans can develop a commitment to racial justice.
| mp3 | 10/12/10 |
10/19/10 |
Political patronage - awarding discretionary favors in exchange for political support.
| mp3 | 10/13/10 |
10/20/10 |
Could our ability to manipulate genes soon mean the end of the human race as we know it, but perhaps the beginning of something better?
| mp3 | 10/15/10 |
10/25/10 |
A former FBI Chief Negotiator gives a behind the scenes view of some famous hostage crises.
| mp3 | 10/18/10 |
10/26/10 |
The accomplishments of organized labor in the twentieth century and its role in our social, political, economic, and cultural evolution.
| mp3 | 10/19/10 |
10/27/10 |
"Waiting for Superman", a movie-inspired book in which educational reformers explore how to fix our broken public school system.
| mp3 | 10/20/10 |
11/1/10, 11/8/10 |
The effect of television on politics, religion, race, and sex.
| mp3 | 10/21/10 |
11/2/10, 11/9/10 |
The violent rhetoric of Glenn Beck and other media figures that fuels extremists to carry out heinous acts.
| mp3 | 10/25/10 |
11/3/10 |
The Patchwork Nation project and "Good Kids, Tough Choices".
| mp3 | 10/26/10 |
11/10/10 |
A comprehensive history of the Christian Right movement, examining how evangelicals came to see the Republican Party as the vehicle through which they could reclaim America as a Christian nation.
| mp3 | 11/1/10 |
11/15/10 |
Who made our world so dangerous, so polluted, so stupid? Matthew Vincent name names.
| mp3 | 11/2/10 |
11/16/10 |
Is the military feeding traumatized soldiers in need of counseling to proselytizing evangelical chaplains, instead of mental health professionals? Mikey Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation says yes.
| mp3 | 11/8/10 |
11/17/10 |
Michael Wolraich, founder of dagblog.com, dissects the myths that underlie the right's growing reliance on the politics of persecution, from Joe McCarthy to the Tea Party movement.
| mp3 | 11/11/10 |
11/22/10 |
Wendell Potter takes us behind the scenes to show how a huge chunk of health care spending actually bankrolls a propaganda campaign and lobbying effort focused on protecting one thing: profits.
| mp3 | 11/17/10 |
11/23/10 |
If we care about effective laws and civilized society, the powers of conscience can't be ignored.
| mp3 | 11/18/10 |
11/24/10 |
How Bob Dylan has drawn upon and reinvented the landscape of traditional American song, its myths and choruses, heroes and villains.
| mp3 | 11/19/10 |
11/29/10 |
The rise of the grifters in the financial industry and the politicians who do their bidding.
| mp3 | 11/22/10 |
11/30/10 |
Religion, politics, and taxes are involved in the controversy over houses of worship engaging in electoral political speech.
| mp3 | 11/23/10 |
12/1/10 |
Author David Loye provides a new grounding in historical, political, economic, moral, spiritual, and environmental reality for the theory and story of evolution.
| mp3 | 11/29/10 |
12/6/10 |
Inside story of the defining period of the Obama White House.
| mp3 | 11/30/10 |
12/7/10 |
How the U.S. government permitted the illegal entry of Nazis into North America following World War II.
| mp3 | 12/2/10 |
12/8/10 |
How the NY Times' obsessions with diversity and "soft" pop cultural news have set it at odds with its journalistic mission.
| mp3 | 12/3/10 |
12/13/10 |
A co-director of Military Operations with Outserve, an underground network of gays actively serving in the military, talks about repealing the military's policy of don't ask don't tell.
| mp3 | 12/6/10 |
12/14/10 |
An art display at the National Portrait Gallery with ants crawling on a crucifix has been removed after complaints; is this censorship?
| mp3 | 12/7/10 |
12/15/10 |
Limits on Medicaid coverage of abortion care; retired USAF Lt.Colonel on what should be done to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
| mp3 | 12/9/10 |
12/20/10 |
Children - the forgotten victims of domestic abuse.
| mp3 | 12/13/10 |
12/21/10 |
Federal judge in Virginia declares part of the health care bill unconstitutional.
| mp3 | 12/14/10 |
12/22/10 |
An investigative reporter's ten year study of unexplained UFO phenomenon.
| mp3 | 12/15/10 |
12/27/10 |
A biography of liberal Supreme Court Justice William Brennan.
| mp3 | 12/17/10 |
12/28/10 |
Author Brad O'Leary claims there is a war raging in America between religion and freedom and atheism and Satanism.
| mp3 | 12/20/10 |
12/29/10 |
Magicians will allow scientists to study their techniques for tricking the brain.
| mp3 | 12/21/10 |