All too often these days, people don’t make up their own minds — they just decide who to believe. Scammers and swindlers count on that. This is the fundamental flaw that makes suckers vulnerable to fraud — and it’s a major problem in many ways. No one can be an expert on everything, but this kind of intellectual laziness has …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 48:28 — 44.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreAfter the past couple of weeks, it might be difficult to know how to handle information in this atmosphere and what to do in a world of propaganda to spread knowledge in service of mitigating groupthink. Check us out on Apple Podcasts and Spotify BloomingOUT is one of the …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:53 — 43.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday Bruce Franklin will be trying to connect lots of dots. He’lll argue, among other things, that we need to learn what three particular dead white guys are still trying to teach us. Two were bombardiers in WWII: Joseph Heller and Howard Zinn. One was bombed in …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 54:00 — 123.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreElena Volochine is the Moscow Bureau Chief for France24. A reporter and documentarian, Volochine spoke at the Indiana University Media School on Tuesday, November 27th, 2018. Volochine spoke about propaganda and journalism in Russia. Volochine begins her presentation with an interview from a supposed Ukrainian sailor about …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 38.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreLet’s start with the fact that what we don’t know keeps on hurting us. Mary Jo McConahay’s The Tango War fills an important gap in U.S. awareness of World War II history. Beginning in the thirties, both the Allied and Axis powers were well aware of the …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:01 — 42.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe open with Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock with “The Star Spangled Banner.” While there are any number of powerful songs we might use tonight, especially from the late 1960s and protests against the Vietnam War, this one seems to me most necessary. A black man, a trained …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:53 — 53.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur opening song is “Sophisticated Lady,” the Duke Ellington jazz standard, performed by Ella Fitzgerald, speaking of disillusionment and loss. There’s plenty of that to around in the life of Eleanor Roosevelt and her circle of family and friends. Our show today is “Eleanor in Love and …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:28:25 — 80.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis is a special 90-minute Interchange focusing on Orson Welles in his less-appreciated role as an innovator in the WWII-era radio feature, a genre of radio mixing fact and drama that is a (largely forgotten and unacknowledged) forerunner of the radio documentary, as we know it now. …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:07 — 887.9KB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur March 7 episode will be special 90-minute Interchange focusing on Orson Welles in his less-appreciated role as an innovator in the WWII-era radio feature, a genre of radio mixing fact and drama that is a (largely forgotten and unacknowledged) forerunner of the radio documentary, as we …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:00 — 75.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur show tonight features two well-known Cuban artists: contemporary novelist, Leonardo Padura, whose fictional detective Mario Conde has been introduced to an even wider audience now through the Netflix miniseries Four Seasons in Havana. As it was shot on location it gives viewers a feel for what …
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