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Sunday, October 5, 2025 12:01 pm
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| Doug Becker
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| Amy Skonieczny , Mary Jane Parmentier and Lui Hebron
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| Donald Trump has asserted himself with the power of the US into multiple ceasefires and conflict negotiations. How does this comport with US policy historically? What might be his motivation?
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| You can hear this and other interviews at www.scholarscircle.org
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Sunday, September 28, 2025 12:01 pm
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| Doug Becker
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| Cynthia Baron, Dept. of Theatre & Film, Bowling Green State Univ.; Dan Mirvish, director, screenwriter, producer and author; Sherry B. Ortner, Anthropology at UCLA.
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| Robert Redford's passing reminds us that perhaps his greatest legacy is his support for independent film. So on today's show, what is the impact of independent film on the industry? How has independent film changed in recent years. How has the major shift toward streaming affected our access to independent films?
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| You can hear this and other interviews at www.scholarscircle.org
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Sunday, September 21, 2025 12:01 pm
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| Doug Becker
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| Roger Petersen is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science at MIT, David L. Altheide is a Regents Professor Emeritus on the faculty of Justice and Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University and Brian Levin Professor of Criminal Justice at California State University, San Bernardino.
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| Political violence is on the rise, we get insight into why it happens and ways to mitigate it's occurrence. With scholars of politics, social inquiry and criminal justice.
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| You can hear this and other interviews at www.scholarscircle.org
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| Doug Becker
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| Roger Petersen is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science at MIT, David L. Altheide is a Regents Professor Emeritus on the faculty of Justice and Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University and Brian Levin Professor of Criminal Justice at California State University, San Bernardino.
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| Political violence is on the rise, we get insight into why it happens and ways to mitigate it's occurrence. With scholars of politics, social inquiry and criminal justice.
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| You can hear this and other interviews at www.scholarscircle.org
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Sunday, September 14, 2025 12:01 pm
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| Doug Becker
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| Hiroshi Motomura is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles. Tony Payan is Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and Alaka Wali is the Curator of North American Anthropology at the Field Museum in Chicago.
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| How does the US Supreme Court decision to allow ICE to target immigrants based on language, accent, race, and employment affect the sweeps of undocumented immigrants in the US. And what are the social and economic impacts of Trump's deportation policy?
Then, Museums are changing their approach to exhibiting Native American artifacts. What is the new model and what is the impact?
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Sunday, September 7, 2025 12:01 pm
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| Doug Becker
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| Dennis Baron, Research Professor of English and linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Elliot Haspel, child care policy expert, and a senior fellow at the think tank Capita.
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| As part of an ongoing attack on free expression, Donald Trump is trying to criminalize flag burning. Is this proposed ban constitutional?
Then, why is child care in America so expensive? This vital service that is so crucial for child and community development is among American families' largest expenses. And why is child care so underfunded by the government? We speak with Elliot Haspel, author of RAISING A NATION: 10 REASONS EVERY AMERICAN HAS A STAKE IN CHILD CARE FOR ALL.
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| You can hear this and other interviews at www.scholarscircle.org
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Sunday, August 31, 2025 12:01 pm
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| Doug Becker
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| Jennifer Selin, Law, Sandra Day OConnor College of Law, Arizona State University; Victor Narro, Project Director, UCLA Labor Center, Faculty for the UCLA Department of Labor Studies; Andrea Pitzer is an author and podcaster.
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| The Trump Administration has been using the Alien Enemies Act to seize undocumented immigrants and send them to other countries without due process. What can be done to protect and uphold the rule of law and human rights in the face of the Trump Administrations rejection of them? What are some means of legal and political resistance when human rights are being violated
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| You can hear this and other interviews at www.scholarscircle.org
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Sunday, August 24, 2025 12:01 pm
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| Doug Becker
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| Anna Ohanyan, Political Science and International Relations, Stonehill College; Narek Sukiasyan, Lecturer, American University of Armenia;Steve Swerdlow, esq, Professor of the Practice of Human Rights, Dept. of Political & International, USC
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| Will the so called peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan legitimize ethnic cleansing? Will it bring peace to the two nations? Or is it a recipe for future conflict?
Military aggression and violations of of the notion of sovereignty have marked the conflicts in the South Caucuses region over the last three decades. Will the peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan continue this trend or will it avert claims to sovereignty?
This agreement between Armenia & Azerbaijan brings the US directly into the South Caucuses. Will American answer the call if there is further military violence?
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| You can hear this and other interviews at www.scholarscircle.org
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Sunday, August 17, 2025 12:01 pm
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| Doug Becker
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| Omar Dajani, Carol Olsen Professor of International Law at the University of the Pacific; Mira Sucharov, Professor of Political Science at Carleton University.
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| After nearly two years of a war on Gaza, some countries in the west have indicated that they intend to recognize Palestine as its own state. What would such recognition mean for the conflict and how can the war end?
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| You can hear this and other interviews at www.scholarscircle.org
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Sunday, August 10, 2025 12:01 pm
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| Doug Becker
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| Jeremi Suri is Professor in the Department of History and the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin. and Haley Cohen Gilliland is a journalist and the director of the Yale Journalism Initiative.
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| First, will Donald Trump's and the republican party's efforts to redraw electoral maps give them a permanent majority?
Then, during the so called "dirty war," Argentina's military dictatorship kidnapped and disappeared its own citizens. But a dedicated group of activists, mothers and grandmothers of the disappeared, dedicated their lives to finding those who were stolen from their families. Who were the Abuelas of the Playa de Mayo? And what happened in their quest to reunite the disappeared with their families? We speak with the author of A FLOWER TRAVELED IN MY BLOOD: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children.
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Sunday, August 3, 2025 12:01 pm
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| Doug Becker
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| Victor Pickard, Media Policy and Political Economy, Co-Director, Media, Inequality & Change Center, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Stephanie A. (Sam) Martin, School of Public Services Global Studies Program, Endowed Chair Franklin Church Institute
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| Congress has now clawed back the funding it had allocated for the Corporation of Public Broadcasting. What does this mean for the future of publicly funded broadcasting in the USA? How will it affect news, public affairs and other vital information delivery?
We will explore the role of public broadcasting in a democracy. What role does money play at ensuring an independent media? What is the status of public funding and even government owned media throughout the democratic world?
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| You can hear this and other interviews at www.scholarscircle.org
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Sunday, July 27, 2025 12:01 pm
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| Doug Becker
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| Ori Swed is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work at Texas Tech University, Sorcha MacLeod is an Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Christopher Kinsey is Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department at King's College London and Anna Leander is Professor and Chair of the International Relations and Political Science Department at the Geneva Graduate Institute.
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| Private Military Corporations have become a growing element of the warfighting landscape. States have historically had a monopoly on the use of military force. But private corporations challenge this monopoly. How much do they increase the lethality and likelihood of war? How much can private corporations be regulated? And what are the challenges to regulation? We explore the political, military, legal, and socioeconomic implications of private military corporations.
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