Culture Shocks show

Culture Shocks

Summary: A daily radio show hosted by the Rev. Barry Lynn. You never know what you will hear. The show discusses how America is in the middle of a real, not imaginary, \"culture war.\" It pits people who want to maximize freedom — freedom to believe, freedom to speak, freedom to make intimate moral decisions — against those who want to use government power to push their religious, moral and cultural beliefs on everyone. It is also a battle over which role governments should have in seeing to the needs of everyone in the United States. It is a struggle between genuine populist \"progressive\" values and repressive ultra‑conservative ones.

Podcasts:

 Peter La Barbera | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:16

Can conservative and Christian companies like Chick-fil-A  win the support and loyalty of American consumers by offering to make up for any lost donations to the Boy Scouts? Peter LaBarbera with Americans For Truth (http://americansfortruth.com/) is calling on some businesses to step up to the plate and make pledges.

 Fred Stoller | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:17

Fred Stoller (http://fredstoller.net/) has played the annoying schnook in just about every sitcom you’ve seen on TV, but he’s never found a solid gig and his life of a perennial guest star is chronicled in Maybe We’ll Have You Back. (http://www.amazon.com/Maybe-Well-Have-You-Back/dp/1620877066/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1369158909&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=matbe+we%27ll+have+you+back)

 Katie Beers, Rayya Elias | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:16

Katie Beers was abducted by a family friend, held captive in an underground cell for 17 days and sexually abused. Buried Memories (http://www.amazon.com/Buried-Memories-Katie-Beers-Story/dp/0985247843/ref=la_B00B2WGQL2_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369069209&sr=1-1) is her story of survival and recovery. Later, Rayya Elias (http://rayyaelias.com/)and her family fled the political conflict in their native Syria, settling in Detroit. Harley Loco (http://http://www.amazon.com/Harley-Loco-Memoir-Living-Post-Punk/dp/0670785164/ref=la_B00B5HRNKM_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369069783&sr=1-1) charts 4 decades of a life lived in the moment, a path from harrowing loss and darkness to a place of peace and redemption.

 Marcia Coyle | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:16

Marcia Coyle’s brilliant inside account of the High Court captures four landmark decisions—concerning health care, money in elections, guns at home, and race in schools in The Roberts Court. (http://www.amazon.com/The-Roberts-Court-Constitution-ebook/dp/B008J4NC0O)

 Susan Jacoby | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:16

Feminist and  bestselling author, Susan Jacoby (http://www.susanjacoby.com/) looks back at the last pre-feminist generation of men who supposedly had it all and asks: what exactly did they have in Last Men on Top (http://www.amazon.com/The-Last-Men-Top-ebook/dp/B00BE257DI).

 David Rosner | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:16

In this incisive examination of lead poisoning during the past half century,  David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz focus on one of the most contentious and bitter battles in the history of public health in Lead Wars. (http://www.amazon.com/Lead-Wars-Politics-Americas-California/dp/0520273257)

 Julia Sweeney | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:16

Comedian Julia Sweeney (http://juliasweeney.com/), creator of the androgynous “Saturday Night Live” character Pat, is also a talented essayist and her new book If It’s Not One Thing It’s Your Mother (http://www.amazon.com/Its-Not-Thing-Your-Mother/dp/145167404X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366642573&sr=1-1&keywords=julia+sweeney) is poignant, provocative, and wise.

 Erica Greider | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:16

Texas may well be America’s most controversial state, evangelicals dominate the halls of power, millions of its people live in poverty, and its death row is the busiest in the country. Yet, according to journalist Erica Grieder (http://http://www.ericagrieder.com/), the country has a great deal to learn from the state in Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right (http://www.amazon.com/Big-Hot-Cheap-Right-America/dp/1610391926).

 Gar Alperovitz | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:16

In What Then Must We Do? (http://www.amazon.com/What-Then-Must-We-Revolution/dp/1603585044/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366130775&sr=1-1&keywords=gar+alperovitz), Gar Alperovitz (http://www.garalperovitz.com/) speaks directly to the reader about where we find ourselves in history, why the time is right for a new-economy movement to coalesce, what it means to build a new system to replace the crumbling one, and how we might begin.

 Jessica Mason Pieklo | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:16

Crow After Roe (http://www.amazon.com/Crow-After-Roe-Separate-Standard/dp/1935439758/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366130327&sr=1-1&keywords=crow+after+roe) examines eleven states since 2010 that have each passed a different anti-abortion or anti-women’s health law explicitly written to provoke a repeal of Roe v. Wade. Co-author, Jessica Pieklo tells us what has changed.

 Kathryn Joyce | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:16

Kathryn Joyce (http://kathrynjoyce.com/)'s, The Child Catchers (http://www.amazon.com/Child-Catchers-Rescue-Trafficking-Adoption/dp/1586489429/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366130556&sr=1-1&keywords=the+child+catchers) is a shocking exposé of what the adoption industry has become and how it got there, told through deep investigative reporting and the heartbreaking stories of individuals who became collateral damage in a market driven by profit and, now, pulpit command.

 Jonah Berger | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:16

In Contagious (http://www.amazon.com/Contagious-Why-Things-Catch-On/dp/1451686579), Jonah Berger (http://jonahberger.com/) combines his groundbreaking research with powerful stories to explain the secret science behind social transmission.

 Diane Wetendorf | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:16

Diane Wetendorf (http://www.abuseofpower.info/) argues that the Religious Right seeks to divert tax dollars from liberal, secular, and feminist programs to private entities and conservative faith-based organizations in Hijacked By the Right (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0988674203).

 Kate Brown | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:16

In Plutopia (http://www.amazon.com/Plutopia-Families-American-Plutonium-Disasters/dp/0199855765/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366127301&sr=1-1&keywords=plutopia), Kate Brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the extraordinary stories of Richland, Washington and Ozersk, Russia-the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium.

 Tom Diaz | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:16

The Last Gun (http://www.amazon.com/The-Last-Gun-Industry-Americans/dp/1595588302)explores how the gun industry and the nature of gun violence have changed, including the disturbing rise in military-grade gun models.

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