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This Wednesday, Nov. 11, Tom will talk to Eugenie Scott about how scammers work, how they attract new marks, and how they manipulate victims psychologically to create the dependence that becomes highly remunerative. We’ll also talk about Eugenie’s great work over the years fighting creationism and intelligent design. 

Emma Gilligan is the co-founder of the Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group for Ukraine and a recipient of the Institute for the Study of Genocide Book Award. She’s studied the extreme violations of human rights that occurred during the war in Chechnya as well as international human rights movements. In her book The Future and You […]

During the American Revolution women banded together into militias, negotiated treaties, acted as spies and even fought beside their husbands. In her book. Denise Kiernan seeks out the stories of these women.

In May of 2026 Dr. Oz, the celebrity doctor declared that 30% of Americans were “Under-babied”. He’s not the only one who’s concerned about falling birth rates. In 2022 Elon Musk declared that “a collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces, by far.” Of course, neither of those men can get pregnant or […]

This Wednesday, September 30, at 9am, Tom will spend the hour talking to Melissa Morsli, a local activist and fundraiser for the nonprofit Heal Palestine.

The myth of the welfare queen vilified women caregivers who dropped out of the paid workforce. But our civilization can’t function without womens’ unpaid caregiving. In her book, Carolyn McConnell looks at the historic roots and current impacts of this system.

On Wednesday Sept. 18 Tom interviewed Ted Greenfield, creator of the anti-human trafficking organization Invisible Angels. Then he talked to the director of the film ‘The Airways Belonged to the People – WBCN and the American Revolution’.

Could we stop the destruction of the environment by curtailing our consumption? In his book, J. B. MacKinnon examines how our insatiable appetite for consumer goods is at the heart of every environmental problem.

On Wednesday Sept. 2 at 9am, Tom interviewed author Chuck Collins about democratic socialism, private jets and wealth inequality. To listen, just go to archive.wslr.org and search for the word “peace.” Go to inequality.org for more.

How prepared are you? In their book, Chris Begley and Amy Edelman provide common sense tactics to get through disasters. Listen to an interview with the authors on the Progressive Page Turner, this Monday, 6:30pm.


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