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.
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Edward Steers (http://www.edsteers.com/) investigates six of the most amazing frauds ever to gain wide acceptance in Hoax (http://www.amazon.com/Hoax-Hitlers-Diaries-Lincolns-Assassins/dp/0813141591/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366126927&sr=1-3&keywords=edward+steers).
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).
Mary Roach (http://www.maryroach.net/) is back, this time with Gulp (http://http://www.amazon.com/Gulp-Adventures-Alimentary-Mary-Roach/dp/0393081575) where we meet scientists who tackle the questions no one else thinks of—or has the courage to ask. We go on location to a pet-food taste-test lab, a fecal transplant, and into a live stomach to observe the fate of a meal.
Told with suspense and style, Wild (http://http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Found-Pacific-Crest-Vintage/dp/0307476073/ref=la_B001HCXFIE_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1366058716&sr=1-1)captures the terrors and pleasures of Cheryl Strayed (http://www.cherylstrayed.com/)who forged ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.
What is it like for a convicted murderer who has spent decades behind bars to suddenly find himself released into a world he barely recognizes? Sabine Heinlein (http://sabineheinlein.org/) followed the everyday lives and emotional struggles of three men convicted of some of the most heinous crimes--as they return to the free world in Among Murderers (http://www.amazon.com/Among-Murderers-Life-after-Prison/dp/0520272854).
God Loves Uganda (http://www.godlovesuganda.com/) explores the role of the American evangelical movement in Uganda, where American missionaries have been credited with both creating schools and hospitals and promoting dangerous religious bigotry.
In Little Red (http://www.amazon.com/Little-Red-Passionate-through-ebook/dp/B00B3M3XOE/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1366142901&sr=8-1), based on extensive original interviews and archival research, Dina Hampton tells the compelling, interwoven life stories of three schoolmates.
In Snake Oil (http://www.amazon.com/Snake-Oil-The-Healing-Truth-Telling/dp/1455519065/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1365021187&sr=8-1&keywords=becca+stevens), Becca Stevens (http://www.thistlefarms.org/index.php/about-becca) tells how the women she began helping fifteen years ago have been the biggest source of her own healing from sexual abuse and her father's death as a child.
Joining forces with science journalist Kathryn Bowers, Barbara Natterson-Horowitz (http://zoobiquity.com/#) employs fascinating case studies to present a revelatory understanding of what animals can teach us about the human body and mind in Zoobiquity (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0307593487/?tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=25017186031&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=20218417381659658&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&ref=pd_sl_6355nwnq6l_b).
Scholar Jonathan Rieder (http://sociology.columbia.edu/node/209) delves deeper than anyone before into the letter that ML King write from jail, illuminating both its timeless message and its crucial position in the history of civil rights in Gospel of Freedom (http://www.amazon.com/Gospel-Freedom-Birmingham-Struggle-Changed/dp/1620400588). Then A C Grayling talks about The God Argument (http://www.amazon.com/God-Argument-against-Religion-Humanism/dp/1620401908/ref=la_B001IOBKEW_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1365442851&sr=1-1).
Acclaimed historian, Jim Steinmeyer (http://www.jimsteinmeyer.com/) sleuths out literature’s most famous vampire, uncovering the source material – from folklore and history, to personas including Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman – behind Bram Stoker’s bloody creation in Who Was Dracula? (http://www.amazon.com/Who-Was-Dracula-Stokers-Trail/dp/014242188X/ref=la_B001JRWV1E_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1365019388&sr=1-2).
The unbelievably riveting adventure of an unlikely young explorer who emerged from the forests of Africa with evidence of a, still mythical beast—the gorilla—only to stumble straight into the center of the biggest debate of the day: Darwin's theory of evolution in Between Man and Beast (http://montereel.com/).
Author Jim Holt explores the greatest metaphysical mystery of all: why is there something rather than nothing? in Why Does the World Exist (http://www.amazon.com/Why-Does-World-Exist-Existential/dp/0871403595/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364836861&sr=1-1&keywords=jim+holt).
Ronald Collins (http://http://www.law.washington.edu/directory/Profile.aspx?ID=505) and David Skover's Mania (http://http://www.amazon.com/Mania-Ronald-K-L-Collins/dp/193893802X) tells the mad, manic, drug and sex fueled story of writers and artists who shaped the cultural revolution.
By entering the world of the Constitution’s framers, and experiencing it one day after the next as they did, Ray Raphael helps us understand how and why they created the document they did in Constitutional Myths (http://http://www.amazon.com/Constitutional-Myths-What-Wrong-Right/dp/1595588329).
