Ep. 213: Campus unrest - live webinar

Ep. 213: Campus unrest - live webinar

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Ep. 261: Thomas Paine's rise and fall

Thomas Paine arrived in America in 1774 with little to his name and a long record of personal failure behind him. Within a year, he wrote Common Sense, one of the most influential political pamphlets in history, helping to ignite the American Revolution and catapulting Paine into ...  Show more

Ep. 260: Remembering 'free-thinking' writer Nat Hentoff

On January 7, 2017, The Associated Press announced that "Free-thinking author and columnist Nat Hentoff is dead at 91." For well over 60 years, Hentoff was a one of America's foremost public intellectuals and a familiar byline to free speech advocates and jazz aficionados. The Fi ...  Show more

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