A Chautauqua

Deb Hobson
with host Deb Hobson
AC.KOPN (at) mchsi.com

Join A Chautauqua in our weekly journeys probing personal, social, scientific and political frontiers. Host, Deb Hobson, talks with local and nationally recognized guests who are exploring innovations and traditions on the leading edge of personal and cultural change.

Complete Podcast and Audio Archive list

Guest: Danny Schechter


Sept 25, 2008
Danny Schechter The "News Dissector"

Guest: Barbara Ehrenreich



September 4, 2008
Journalist, Barbara Ehrenreich, author of This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation

Guest: Joseph E. Stiglitz


Aug 28, 2008
Joseph E. Stiglitz: The Three Trillion Dollar War

Guest: William D. Hartung



August 21, 2008
William D. Hartung, Lessons from Iraq: Avoiding the Next War

Guest: Charles Derber


Aug 14, 2008
Charles Derber: Morality Wars: How Empires, the Born Again and the Politically Correct Do Evil in the Name of Good

Guest: Michael T. Klare



August 7, 2008
Michael T. Klare is the defense analyst for The Nation, and the director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst. His most recent book is Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy.

Guest: Frida Berrigan


July 31, 2008
Frida Berrigan is a peace activist, a senior program associate at the Arms and Security Initiative of the New America Foundation, and a columnist for Foreign Policy In Focus.

Guest: Joanna Macy



July 24, 2008
Joanna Macy, ecophilosopher, author and activist, on deep ecology.
Book: World as Lover, World as Self: A Guide to Living Fully in Turbulent Times
Originally aired on 8/23/2007.

Readings from ...


July 17, 2008
Readings from Voices of a People's History of the United States, edited by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove.

Guest: Craig Unger



July 10, 2008
Craig Unger
BOOK: American Armageddon: How the Delusions of the Neoconservatives and the Christian Right Triggered the Descent of America--and Still Imperil Our Future
http://www.craigunger.com/

Guest: Robert Scheer


July 3, 2008
Robert Scheer
Book: The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America

Guest: Harvey Wasserman



June 26, 2008
Harvey Wasserman, book "Solartopia," offshore oil drilling

Guest: David Sirota



June 12, 2008
David Sirota, The Uprising...

Guest: Susan Quinn


June 5, 2008
Susan Quinn, Furious Improvisation
How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times

Guests: Jared Bernstein



May 29, 2008
Jared Bernstein: Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed? (And Other Unsolved Economic Mysteries)

Guests: Jim Hightower, Howard Zinn


May 22, 2008
Jim Hightower: Swim Against the Current;
also Howard Zinn

Guest: Maude Barlow



May 15, 2008
Maude Barlow: Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water

Guest: Glenn Greenwald


May 8, 2008
Glenn Greenwald, former civil rights attorney, blogger and author, Great American Hypocrites.

Salon blog: http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/