Our topic today is a modernizing, industrializing, Japan, and the life and thought of Tanaka Shozo, the the late 19th and early 20th century Japanese peasant, politician, land speculator, liberal parliamentarian, transgressor against the Emperor, and environmental rights activist. But, we are, in the end, talking about liberal modernity and industrial capitalism across the globe. From labor coercion, and industrial …

On October 6th, 2021, Griffy joined us in the studio during our Fall Fund Drive to play some songs from their new album, St. Astronaut. During the interviews, the band discussed the process of writing and producing the new album, how the band formed, and their history with WFHB. Songs performed: “St. Astronaut”, “Proximity”, “I Told You So”, and the …

Hosts Clarence Boone and William Hosea spend the hour with with two retired U.S. Marine Corps Major Generals, Dr. Clifford Stanley and Craig Q. Timberlake, to share their reflections on the life and impact of Secretary of State Colin Powell. Colin Powell was an American statesman, diplomat, and four-star general who served as the 65th U.S. Secretary of State from …

Don Jordan, ‘Buddy Bill’ Moser, and Rich Reardin ‘Inside Outdoors’ engineer, host and Inside Outdoors executive producer is Rich Reardin WFHB executive producer is Kade Young

We start off this week’s episode with an update on Marius Mason’s transfer to a men’s facility.  Marius is an imprisoned environmentalist who, in addition to waging an Earth Liberation Front sabotage campaign, was an important aboveground organizer for social movements in Indiana and Michigan for decades.  He came out as transgender while in prison, and has recently spoken out …

Welcome to the 49th episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio. Hearabouts is produced by Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center in collaboration with WFHB. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions. This episode is produced by Hannah Lorenzo and is hosted by Andrew Pace. Our sound engineer is Michael Sears. In this episode we have a …

Today’s show is a repeat from June 25, 2019. In her book, Carceral Capitalism, poet and scholar Jackie Wang confronts mass incarceration in the US by delving into the processes that feed into and maintain the prison system: anti-black racism, predatory lending, algorithmic policing, privatized prisons, credit scams, data analytics and histories of exclusion. The so-called ‘race-neutral’ technologies like credit …

On today’s edition of Bring It On! hosts Clarence Boone and William Hosea speak with Haneefah Khaaliq and Natalia Galvan about upcoming political races in Indiana and other political issues of importance. Haneefah Khaaliq is running as a candidate for the United States Senate. A longtime Hoosier, she was born and raised in the Hyde Park area of Illinois. She …

This week, we hear from a friend and supporter of Jessica Reznicek, who was recently sentenced federal prison after she admitted to sabotaging the widely opposed Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in 2017. In this episode, Monte tells Jessica’s story from her childhood influences to her experiences in the NoDAPL Movement, in solidarity with the struggle of the Standing Rock Sioux.  …

He listened to the Drive-By Truckers on his headphones as he walked, daily, to the local coffeehouse in Birmingham, England. The band’s songs and lyrics made him think of his own hometown in the American South. So Stephen Deusner decided to write a book about the alternative Southern rock band. The book, Where the Devil Don’t Stay: Traveling the South with …