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Interchange – The Untrammeled Cartoonist: The Radicalism of Art Young (Repeat)

Today much of the history of American radicalism, including the work of cartoonist Art Young, languishes in obscurity just when it is needed most. But be cheered, along with Michael Mark Cohen’s website, Cartooning Capitalism: Art Young and the Cartoons of American Radicalism, there are now two collections of Young’s work in print, both out from Fantagraphics, To Laugh that …

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Interchange – Art Against War & Capital: On the Cartoons of Art Young

Born in 1866 Art Young was the exact contemporary of W. E. B Du Bois though Du Bois would outlive him by 20 years, and he was about a decade younger than the great Indiana Socialist Eugene V. Debs. Young was the most widely recognized and beloved cartoonist of the golden age of American radicalism. Spanning the Age of Monopoly …

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Interchange – Needing A Space For Us: On Social Rights with Kimberley Brownlee (Part II)

Once again we’re joined by Kimberley Brownlee to talk about the necessity of Social Rights being a rock-bottom human right. We need each other and we need to be needed so that we might become fully human. Last week we discussed how Social Rights should have priority as human rights in the same way that food and water do, and …

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Interchange – Against Moral Saints: Kristian Williams on George Orwell and Oscar Wilde

Today we speak with anarchist author Kristian Williams about his interest in George Orwell and Oscar Wilde, seemingly quite disparate thinkers to attract one’s admiration. But it turns out that Williams isn’t the first anarchist to be interested in them. It also turns out that Orwell himself admired Wilde, writing in a letter to a friend that he’d always been …

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A Case Against Universal Basic Income

Universal Basic Income is often touted as a solution to the struggles of our current economic system; providing for those left behind, as the U.S. economy transitions away from manufacturing. University of Chicago Professor Aaron Benanav spoke on the darker implications of UBI, at an event sponsored by WFHB, last month. Benanav said UBI may be used to placate people …

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Interchange – Moments of Betterment: The Example of Eugene V. Debs

On March 30 this year, WFHB partnered with several local businesses, the Ryder Magazine and Film series, the Burroughs Century, the Debs Foundation, and Indiana University, to bring Paul Buhle to Bloomington to talk about his new graphic biography of Eugene V. Debs (drawn by Noah Van Sciver and published by Verso) and the necessity of utopian thinking. What better …

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Interchange – For Love of Money: Libertarian Opportunists

In his new book Capitalism vs. Freedom, Rob Larson goes after the high priests of Capitalism, those deep thinkers such as Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, and Ayn Rand. But more directly and pointedly, Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize Winning economist, and debate society pugilist who did the heavy PR work for Reagan era deregulation and who offered the Right …

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Hola Bloomington – June 15, 2018

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Locutores Luis Hernandes, Luis Fuentes y Carlos Bakota hablaron sobre Cuba, cubamistad, y su gente y la politca.   Hosts Luis Hernandes, Luis Fuentes, y Carlos Bakota talked about Cuba, its people, and its political relationship with America and the rest of the world as well as America’s culture within countries globally.

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Interchange – Leon Trotsky, or The Revolution Betrayed

Our show today is another in our series on the Russian Revolution of 1917. This time our focus is on Leon Trotsky. Our music throughout is by the 80s English, socialist, skinhead, soul, punk group, The Redskins. We open with “Lev Bronstein.” The dream of socialism as an organizing principle has been deemed an inevitable failure — and logically undemocratic …

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Interchange – Desperately Seeking Solutions: Fixing Economic Inequality

With President-elect Trump soon to take office, America is faced with a grim irony: many voters with economic grievances about a “rigged system” helped Trump win office, and yet given his major appointments so far, it seems unlikely that our next president will do anything to fundamentally address those problems — and it seems likely he’ll make them worse. Assuming …

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