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: 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/

Guest: Mark Crispin Miller



May 1, 2008
Mark Crispin Miller Loser Take All: Election Fraud and The Subversion of Democracy, 2000-2008

Guest: Devra Davis, PhD

Guest: Dan Gillmor


Apr 10, 2008
Dan Gillmor: We the Media

Guest: Joshua Freeman, MD

Apr 3, 2008
Dr Joshua Freeman Physicians for a National Health Program

Guest: Eric Alterman


Apr 3, 2008
Eric Alterman: Why We're Liberals: A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America
http://www.ericalterman.com/

Guest: Greg Mitchell


Mar 27, 2008
So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits--and the President--Failed on Iraq

Guest: Nick Turse


Mar 20, 2008
Nick Turse: The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives

Guest: Melvin A. Goodman


Mar 13, 2008
Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA

Guest: David Cay Johnston


Mar 6, 2008
David Cay Johnston, Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else

Guest: Naomi Wolf


Feb 28, 2008
Naomi Wolf has found that all repressive leaders follow a very similar blueprint to seizing power and closing down a democracy. In her newest book, "The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot" Naomi Wolf gives us 10 very definite steps to use as red flags or warning signs, to compel us to face the way our free America is under assault, and to give us a wake-up call to fight to preserve our democracy.
http://www.americanfreedomcampaign.org/

Guest: Peter Karoff


Feb 21, 2008
Peter Karoff, The World We Want: New Dimensions in Philanthropy and Social Change

Guest: Robert Kuttner


Feb 14, 2008
Better managed capitalism.
Robert Kuttner is co-editor of The American Prospect magazine.

Guest: Laura Flanders


Jan 24, 2008
Laura Flanders Air America

Guests: Nomi Prins, Susan Loewenberg


Jan 31, 2008
Nomi Prins with Demos: A Network for Ideas & Action; Susan Albert Loewenberg, LA Theatre Works “Top Secret”

Guest: Tom Engelhardt


Jan 24, 2008
Tom Engelhardt is the author of the recently updated: The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation, The Last Days of Publishing, a novel, and Mission Unaccomplished: Tomdispatch Interviews with American Iconoclasts and Dissenters

Guest: Ann Wright


Jan 17, 2008
During the run-up to war in Iraq, Army Colonel (Ret.) and diplomat Ann Wright resigned her State Department post.

Guest: William Greider

Jan 10, 2008 "Reformers appear in surprising variety, from conservative business managers to small-town civic leaders, social agitators and ecologists, labor leaders and farmers."

Guest: Barbara Olshansky


Jan 3, 2008
Barbara Olshansky is the Leah Kaplan Distinguished Professor in Human Rights.

Guest: Keith Sawyer


Dec 20, 2007
New book Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration. A pioneering expert on creativity and innovation shows the power of collaboration for individual organizational creativity.