POLITICS AUDIO-BOOKS (263 TITLES)
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I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr. Available on: Digital Download | Online Video Average Rating:     (5.0 Stars)
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true
meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." |
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Speech by Gandhi by Mohandas Gandhi Available on: Online Audio Average Rating:     (5.0 Stars)
Mohandas Gandhi, recorded in Kinglsey Hall, London 1931, giving a spiritual
message to the world. |
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Common Sense by Thomas Paine Available on: Digital Download Average Rating:     (5.0 Stars)
Common Sense is perhaps the work single most responsible for the American
Revolution. |
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Discourses on Iraq and the Middle East by Noam Chomsky Available on: Online Video Average Rating:     (5.0 Stars)
U.S. actions in Iraq get a thorough thrashing in this final chapter of the
Reconstructing Iraq series. |
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968 by Martin Luther King, Jr. Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio | Online Video Average Rating:
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"In the early 1960s, King focused his challenge on legalized racial discrimination
in the South where police dogs and bullwhips and cattle prods were used against Southern blacks seeking the right to vote
or to eat at a public lunch counter." |
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The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman Available on: Online Video Average Rating:     (4.9 Stars)
Chances are good that Bhavya in Bangalore will read your next x-ray, or as
Thomas Friedman learned first hand, “Grandma Betty in her bathrobe” will make your Jet Blue plane reservation
from her Salt Lake City home. |
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Checkers by Richard M. Nixon Available on: Digital Download Average Rating:     (4.7 Stars)
"I come before you tonight as a candidate for the Vice Presidency and as
a man whose honesty and integrity has been questioned." |
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David McCullough's Biography of a Year: 1776 by David McCullough Available on: Digital Download | Online Video Average Rating:     (4.7 Stars)
Bestselling historical writer and two-time Pulitzer winner David McCullough
follows up his biography John Adams by focusing on an historic time rather than an individual… |
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Mahatma by Mohandas Gandhi Available on: Online Video Average Rating:     (4.7 Stars)
This is the first complete audio-visual documentary biography of Mohandas
Karamchand Gandhi. All events and principles of Gandhi's life and thought are viewed as integrated parts of his truth-intoxicated
life depicting permanent and universal values and not merely as stray events of history. |
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Gandhi Audio Library by Mohandas Gandhi Available on: Digital Download Average Rating:     (4.0 Stars)
Gandhi speeches and recordings provided by the Mahatma Gandhi Research and
Media Serivce Archive. |
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1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address by Mario Cuomo Available on: Digital Download Average Rating:     (4.0 Stars)
"A Tale of Two Cities" |
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The Myth of American Exceptionalism by Howard Zinn Available on: Online Video Average Rating:     (4.0 Stars)
Americans have long embraced a notion of superiority, claims Howard Zinn.
Governor Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony described establishing “a city on a hill,” to serve the world
as a beacon of liberty. |
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Richard M. Nixon: Resignation Speech by Richard M. Nixon Available on: Digital Download Average Rating:     (4.0 Stars)
"In passing this office to the Vice President, I also do so with the profound
sense of the weight of responsibility..." |
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African Slavery In America by Thomas Paine Available on: Digital Download Average Rating:     (3.3 Stars)
Published March 8, 1775 in the Pennsylvania Journal and the Weekly Advertiser,
this tract was Thomas Paines first published work. |
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1960 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address by Richard M. Nixon Available on: Digital Download
"Let me tell you something of the
goals of this better America toward which we will strive." |
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1964 Republican National Convention Address by Barry Goldwater Available on: Digital Download
"Extremism in the Defense of Liberty
Is No Vice" |
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1980 Democratic National Convention Address by Edward M. Kennedy Available on: Digital Download
"Our cause has been, since the
days of Thomas Jefferson, the cause of the common man and the common woman." |
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1980 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address by Ronald Reagan Available on: Digital Download
"I will not stand by and watch this
great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership..." |
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1988 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address by Ann Richards Available on: Digital Download
"In July 1988 in Atlanta, GA Ann Richards
delivered this speech..." |
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1992 Democratic National Convention Acceptance Address by Bill Clinton Available on: Digital Download
"This election is about putting power
back in your hands and putting the government back on your side." |
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1992 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address by Barbara Jordan Available on: Digital Download
"What we need to do, Democrats, is
believe that it is possible to win. It is possible." |
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1992 Republication National Convention Address by Mary Fisher Available on: Digital Download
"A Whisper of Aids" |
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1996 Democratic National Convention Address by Christopher Reeve Available on: Digital Download
"And over the last few years we
have heard a lot about something called "family values". |
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2000 First Presidential Debate: Gore v. Bush by George W. Bush Available on: Digital Download
The first in a series of highly anticipated
debates. |
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2000 Presidential Concession Speech by Al Gore Available on: Digital Download
"Just moments ago, I spoke with George W.
Bush and congratulated him on becoming the 43rd president of the United
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2000 Vice Presidential Debate: Cheney v. Lieberman by Dick Cheney Available on: Digital Download
The first and only vice presidential
debate of Campaign 2000. |
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2003 State of the Union Address by George W. Bush Available on: Digital Download
"We will work for a prosperity that
is broadly shared ... " |
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2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address by Barack Obama Available on: Digital Download
"Tonight is a particular honor for
me because, let’s face it, my presence on this stage is pretty unlikely..." |
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2004 First Presidential Debate: Bush vs. Kerry (9/30/04) by George W. Bush Available on: Digital Download
The first presidential debate between
Republican incumbent President George W. Bush and Democratic challenger Senator John Kerry. |
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2004 Second Presidential Debate: Bush vs. Kerry (10/8/04) by George W. Bush Available on: Digital Download
The second presidential debate. |
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2004 Third Presidential Debate: Bush vs. Kerry (10/13/04) by George W. Bush Available on: Digital Download
The third presidential debate. |
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2004 Vice Presidential Debate: Cheney vs. Edwards (10/5/04) by Sen. John Edwards Available on: Digital Download
The Vice Presidential debate between
Republican incumbent Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic challenger Senator John Edwards. |
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30th Anniversary of The Inter-University Committee on International Migration by Mamphela Ramphele Available on: Online Video
The world needs to come up with a
coherent, comprehensive policy on migration, and in short order. Mamphela Ramphele is uniquely positioned to understand and
shape such a policy for the new U.N. commission that’s studying the issue. |
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The 9-11 Commission Final Report - Press Conference (7/22/04) by Lee Hamilton Available on: Digital Download
The National Commission on Terrorist
Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9-11 Commission, released their nearly 600-page final report to the public
on July 22, 2004. |
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9-11 Commission Hearings: Colin L. Powell (3/23/04) by Colin Powell Available on: Digital Download
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell's
testimony before the 9-11 Commission, presented March 23, 2004. |
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9-11 Commission Hearings: Condoleezza Rice (4/8/04) by Condoleeza Rice Available on: Digital Download
National Security Adviser Condoleezza
Rice's testimony before the 9-11 Commission, presented April 8, 2004. |
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9-11 Commission Hearings: Donald Rumsfeld (3/23/04) by Donald Rumsfeld Available on: Digital Download
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's
testimony before the 9-11 Commission, presented March 23, 2004. |
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9-11 Commission Hearings: George J. Tenet (3/24/04) by George J. Tenet Available on: Digital Download
Director of Central Intelligence
George J. Tenet's testimony before the 9-11 Commission, presented March 24, 2004. |
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9-11 Commission Hearings: Madeleine K. Albright (3/23/04) by Madeleine Albright Available on: Digital Download
Former Secretary of State Madeleine
K. Albright's testimony before the 9-11 Commission, presented March 23, 2004. |
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9-11 Commission Hearings: Richard A. Clarke (3/24/04 by Richard A. Clarke Available on: Digital Download
Former National Coordinator for
Counterterrorism Richard A. Clarke's testimony before the 9-11 Commission, presented March 24, 2004. |
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Activism, Anarchism and Power by Noam Chomsky Available on: Online Video
Noam Chomsky speaks about his life and
work. |
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Address to Incoming House GOP Freshmen by Rush Limbaugh Available on: Digital Download
"Because I'll bet you individually,
all of you are just like I am." |
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Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association by John F. Kennedy Available on: Digital Download | Online Video
"While the so-called
religious issue is necessarily and properly the chief topic here tonight..." |
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Address to the National Religious Broadcasters by Ronald Reagan Available on: Digital Download
"Americans yearn to explore life's
deepest truths." |
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Airline Security by Arnold Barnett Available on: Online Video
The events of 9/11 unleashed a flood
of security measures across all dimensions of daily life, many of them aimed at averting repeat attacks on aircraft. |
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Al Gore Address on Bush Presidency (10/18/04) by Al Gore Available on: Digital Download
Former Vice President Al Gore delivers his
final major policy speech of the campaign season. |
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American RadioWorks presents America's Drug War by Deborah Amos Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
After 30 years, America's
War on drugs costs U.S. taxpayers $40 billion a year with no victory in sight.... |
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American RadioWorks presents Burning the Evidence by Michael Mongomery Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
During the war
in Kosovo in 1999, war-crimes investigators suspected that Serbian forces were hiding evidence of atrocities by removing bodies...
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American RadioWorks presents Carving Up the Vote by James Silver Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
Across the country this
year, partisan redrawing of districts was so effective that many incumbents ran virtually unopposed.... |
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American RadioWorks presents Corrections, Inc. by John Biewen Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
The nation's swelling
inmate population has turned imprisonment into a $50 billion-a-year industry.. |
Infamy: December 7 and 9/11 by John Biewen Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
Within the living memory
of Americans are two deadly surprise attacks against the United States.... |
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American RadioWorks presents Deadly Decisions by Alan Berlow Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
How do jurors decide
who should live and who should die.... |
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American RadioWorks presents Global Politics of Food by John Biewen Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
The global economy is
changing the way we think about food, from the kinds of things we eat, to the way food is grown and harvested.... |
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American RadioWorks presents Iraq: The War After the War by Deborah Amos Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
The military victory
in Iraq was stunning and swift, but months after the fall of Baghdad, the U.S. military is still fighting.... |
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American RadioWorks presents Jailing the Mentally Ill by John Biewen Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
Why are so many mentally
ill Americans behind bars.... |
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American RadioWorks presents Justice on Trial by Stephen Smith Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
From the trials of
Nazis at Nuremberg to the prosecution of war criminals in the former Yugoslavia, to people's courts in Rwanda.... |
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American RadioWorks presents Korea: The Unfinished War by Stephen Smith Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
To fully grasp the
ongoing tensions between the United States and North Korea, it is important to understand the war that ended more than fifty
years ago... |
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American RadioWorks presents Locked Down: Gangs in the Supermax by Michael Mongomery Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
Supermax prisons
are icons of America?s tough penal system.... |
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American RadioWorks presents Massacre at Cuska by Michael Mongomery Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
In 1999, Serb death
squads attacked the ethnic Albanian village of Cuska and left 41 unarmed civilians dead.... |
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American RadioWorks presents My Name is Iran by Davar Ardalan Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
In 1927, Iran developed
a legal code doing away with gruesome Islamic punishments such as stoning and lashing.... |
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American RadioWorks presents No Place to Hide by John Biewen Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
In the wake of the 9/11
terror attacks, the U.S. government has embraced new tools and new powers to track the movements of people within America's
borders... |
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American RadioWorks presents Revisiting Vietnam by Daniel Zwerdling Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
Twenty-five years
after the fall of Saigon, the legacy of the war affects lives on both sides of the Pacific.... |
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American RadioWorks presents Shadow Over Lockerbie by John Biewen Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
270 people died when
Pan Am 103 was blown out of the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland on December 21, 1988.... |
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American RadioWorks presents The Few Who Stayed - Defying Genocide in Rwanda by Michael Mongomery Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
In April 1994,
the central African nation of Rwanda exploded into 100 days of violence, killing 800,000 people.... |
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American RadioWorks presents The Roots of Resentment by Stephen Smith Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
The United States inspires
deep and conflicting emotions in other parts of the world.... |
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American RadioWorks presents Thurgood Marshall Before the Court by Stephen Smith Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
In 1967, Thurgood Marshall
became the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.... |
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American RadioWorks presents White House Tapes: The President Calling by Stephen Smith Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
Three of America's
most compelling presidents, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, bugged their White House offices and tapped their telephones....
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American RadioWorks presents Who Bought the Farm? by Chris Farrell Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
In the new global economy,
can America depend on having a safe and affordable food supply.... |
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American RadioWorks presents Whose Vote Counts? by Rebecca Perl Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
The fiasco in Florida
got the most attention in the 2000 election, and it would be easy to assume that better voting machines will solve America's
problems at the polls.... |
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American RadioWorks presents Witnesses to Terror: The 9/11 Hearings by Catherine Winter Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
During an 18-month
investigation, the 9/11 Commission heard extraordinary testimony about the terrorist attacks on America.... |
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The Arab Discourse and the International Role by Hafez Mirazi Available on: Online Video
Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based Arab news network,
isn’t the Bush Administration’s favorite media outlet. |
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Art Determined by Politics by James Panero Available on: Online Audio | Online Video
From ISI's Cicero's Podium:
A Great Issues Debate Series. |
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Automobiles in Growing Economies of the Developing World by Ralph Gakenheimer Available on: Online Video
A word of warning from inveterate
traveler Ralph Gakenheimer: Never ride a bicycle around downtown Shanghai. The explosive growth of cars has resulted “in
mayhem” for cyclists and pedestrians. |
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An Autumn of War by Victor Davis Hanson Available on: Online Audio | Online Video
The Intercollegiate
Studies Institute Lecture Program assists in sponsoring lectures each year at the college, university, and preparatory school
levels. |
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Bill Clinton Inauguration Speech 1993 by Bill Clinton Available on: Digital Download
Renewal and reform were the prevalent
themes of Bill Clinton's first inaugural address in 1993. |
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Blood and Oil by Michael T. Klare Available on: Digital Download
Nationally renowned expert on U.S.
petroleum policy, Michael T. Klare discusses his latest book Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing
Dependency on Imported Petroleum. |
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Blood and Oil in Burma by Daniel Zwerdling Available on: Online Audio
This is the first time that anybody
has sued an American corporation in an American court on the grounds that the company's violating human rights in another
country. |
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Bob Dole and Al Gore on 2004 Election by Bob Dole Available on: Digital Download
At the Southern Methodist University Tate
Lecture Series in Dallas, Texas, former presidential candidates Bob Dole and Al Gore discuss politics and the 2004 Election.
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Breaking Ranks by Mike Hoffman Available on: Digital Download | Online Video
Mother Jones reported
in a recent cover story that more and more U.S. soldiers are speaking out on the war in Iraq, and some are refusing to fight.
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Can God and Caesar Coexist? by Robert Drinan Available on: Digital Download | Online Video
Noting that the United
Nations has never adopted a legally binding covenant guaranteeing freedom of religion, Drinan explores the challenges of balancing
religious freedom with the rule of law. |
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The Choice 2004 by Nicholas Lemann Available on: Online Audio
In this report, a dual biography of
George W. Bush and John Kerry, and how their distinctive histories and personalities would shape their approach to the presidency.
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Clinton's Rebuttal: Initial Response to Referral of Office of Independent Counsel Available on: Digital Download
In the intial response to the Office of the Independent
Counsel's charges against President Clinton, the White House declares that the report is void of any evidence suggesting perjury,
obstruction of justice, or witness tampering. |
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The Coming Generational Storm by Laurence J. Kotlikoff Available on: Online Video
A word of advice to baby boomers:
be very kind to your children. They will quite likely be paying a steep price for your happy golden years. |
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Commonwealth Club Address by Cesar Chavez Available on: Digital Download
"All my life, I have been driven by
one dream, one goal, one vision: to overthrow a farm labor system..." |
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The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx Available on: Digital Download
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote their
Manifesto in December 1847, as a guide to the fundamental principles and practices of Communists. |
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Comparative Insights: Marshall Plan, Japan, and Iraq by John W. Dower Available on: Online Video
John Dower sees a world of difference
between a shattered Japan that accepted U.S. occupation, and fractious Iraq, which continues to buck under American leadership.
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Confirmation Hearing for Condoleezza Rice (Jan 18-19, 2005) Available on: Digital Download
On January 18 and 19, 2005, Secretary of State nominee
Condoleezza Rice appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. |
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Consolidating Iraqi Democracy by Noah Feldman Available on: Online Video
Can constitutional democracy unfold in
Iraq? Noah Feldman details a hybrid model of democracy-building currently under way in Iraq whose outcome is far from certain.
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Constructing a New Liberal Iraq by Robert E. Looney Available on: Online Video
Iraq’s oil reserves are the second
largest in the world, yet according to both colloquium speakers, the country’s economic prospects are quite dim. |
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The Cost of Corruption by Michael Montgomery Available on: Online Audio | Online Video
Every day. somewhere
in the world, a bribe changes hands. |
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The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson Available on: Digital Download
The Declaration of Independence
is the document in which the Thirteen Colonies declared themselves independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain and explained
their justifications for doing so. |
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Democratic Greatness in the American Founding by Harvey C. Mansfield Available on: Online Audio | Online Video
The Intercollegiate
Studies Institute Lecture Program assists in sponsoring lectures each year at the college, university, and preparatory school
levels. |
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A Diplomat's Odyssey by Joseph Wilson IV Available on: Online Video
Joseph Wilson speaks about his life
and work. |
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Donald Livingston: Mises Institute Lectures by Donald Livingston Available on: Digital Download
Donald Livingston is an American
philosophy professor based at Emory University with an expertise in the writings of David Hume. |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Inauguration Speech 1957 by Dwight D. Eisenhower Available on: Digital Download
In his 1957 inauguration speech,
Dwight D. Eisenhower addressed the threats and problems posed to the world by "International Communism". |
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Election 2004: Did the Media Fail? by Terence Smith Available on: Online Video
These two speakers share a strong sense
of regret for missed opportunities during the 2004 election. |
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The Election of 1912 by William H. Taft Available on: Online Audio
Listen to speeches from the American
Presidental election of 1912. |
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The Emergence of China in the Global Economy by Lester Thurow Available on: Online Video
Napoleon admonished the world to beware
an awakened China. 200 years later, Lester Thurow traces the astonishing rise of this economic giant. |
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The End of Saddam and the Future of Iraq by Kanan Makiya Available on: Online Video
Saddam Hussein left a very visible legacy
from 30 bloody years in power: countless victims and a broken nation. But there is also a more obscure inheritance, literally
mountains of documents left by the Ba’ath Party and security groups. |
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Ending Global Poverty by Muhammad Yunus Available on: Online Video
Imagine a bank that loans money based
on a borrower’s desperate circumstances -- where, as Muhammad Yunus says, “the less you have, the higher priority
you have.” | |
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Engineering Crops in a Needy World by John Biewen Available on: Online Audio
India has emerged as a leading hotspot in
the worldwide battle over GM crops. |
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Evading the Virus by Stephen Smith Available on: Online Audio
Is it fair to the child to be born into
a family where one or both parents has a serious illness? |
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The Execution Tapes Available on: Digital Download
Since this country's last public execution in 1936, all
U.S. executions have been carried out solely in front of state-selected witnesses. |
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Faces at the Bottom of the Well by Julian Bond Available on: Online Video
In this stirring speech, Julian Bond takes
on issues of poverty and economic equality and argues that the same forces that tried to derail the civil rights movement
in the 1960's are still in place today. |
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The Faithful President by Terry Eastland Available on: Online Audio | Online Video
The Intercollegiate Studies
Institute Lecture Program assists in sponsoring lectures each year at the college, university, and preparatory school levels.
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FDA's Strategies for Improving Health Care by Mark McClellan Available on: Online Video
The FDA is a critical consumer protection
agency, which assures the safety of foods and cosmetics, and the safety and efficacy of pharmaceuticals, biological products
and medical devices… |
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Finding Home by Sasha Aslanian Available on: Online Audio
Finding Home: Fifty Years of International
Adoption explores the pull of adoption across lives and borders. |
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Forced Labor in the Globalized World by Tom Ashbrook Available on: Online Video
Before buying your next chocolate bar or
sweatshirt, bear in mind its potential hidden cost: the forced labor of an impoverished worker. |
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Forced Labor: The World Debate by Zeinab Badawi Available on: Online Video
Jean-Robert Câdet lost his childhood,
when at the age of four, he became a slave to a rich Port-au-Prince family |
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Foreign Policy Ideas in George W. Bush Administration by David Frum Available on: Online Video
David Frum speaks about his life and work.
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The Forgotten 14 Million by John Biewen Available on: Online Audio
After the longest peace-time expansion in
American history, one in five American children is growing up poor. |
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Former President Bill Clinton's BookExpo America Keynote 6/3/04 by Bill Clinton Available on: Digital Download
At BookExpo America in Chicago, former
President Bill Clinton delivers the annual keynote address about his much-anticipated autobiography, My Life. |
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Former Vice President Al Gore's Speech on Iraq Policy 5/26/04 by Al Gore Available on: Digital Download
Former United States Vice President Al Gore
delivered a foreign policy address at New York University, in New York on May 26, 2004. |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Inauguration Speech 1933 by Franklin D. Roosevelt Available on: Digital Download
On March 4, 1933, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as the 32nd President of the United States. |
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Friedrich Hayek: Mises Institute Lectures by Friedrich A. Hayek Available on: Digital Download | Online Video
Friedrich August
von Hayek born in 1899 in Vienna) was an economist and social scientist of the Austrian School... |
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Function and Nature of History by Russell Kirk Available on: Online Audio
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute Lecture
Program assists in sponsoring lectures each year at the college, university, and preparatory school levels. |
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G. K. Chesterton: Darling of Liberals or Conservatives? by Andrew A. Tadie Available on: Online Audio | Online Video
The Intercollegiate Studies
Institute Lecture Program assists in sponsoring lectures each year at the college, university, and preparatory school levels.
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Gandhi Audio Library by Mohandas Gandhi Available on: Digital Download
Assorted audio recordings from the
Gandhiserve.org library. |
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The Gandhi Museum Audio-Visual Archive by Mohandas Gandhi Available on: Digital Download
The Gandhi Museum Audio Visual section
maintains a large collection of audio-visual tapes, records, CDs and films related to Mahatma Gandhi & Freedom Movement.
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Gandhi Oral History by Mohandas Gandhi Available on: Audio Cassette | Digital Download
Oral history of
Gandhi recorded by collegues and friends available on digital download and casette. |
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Gandhi's Voice by Mohandas Gandhi Available on: Digital Download
A large selection of recorded Gandhi
speeches. |
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Geneva College Commencement Address by Charles Colson Available on: Digital Download
"We’ve lost what’s been
the basic question that people have asked all through history: "What’s justice?" |
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George H. W. Bush Inauguration Speech 1989 by George Bush, Sr. Available on: Digital Download
In his 1989 inaugural address,
George H.W. Bush reiterated his "a thousand points of light" theme and spoke of "harnessing the unused talent of the elderly
and the unfocused energy of the young". |
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George Reisman: Mises Institute Lectures by George Reisman Available on: Digital Download | Online Video
Dr. George Reisman
earned his PhD in Economics at New York University under the direction of Ludwig von Mises. |
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George W. Bush Press Conference (1/26/05) by George W. Bush Available on: Digital Download
In the first press conference of
his second term, President George W. Bush reiterated and expounded upon themes he laid out in his inauguration speech. |
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George Washington by Richard Brookhiser Available on: Online Audio | Online Video
The Intercollegiate
Studies Institute Lecture Program assists in sponsoring lectures each year at the college, university, and preparatory school
levels. |
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Gerald Ford Inauguration Speech 1974 by Gerald Ford Available on: Digital Download
After Richard Nixon's resignation in
the wake of the Watergate scandal, Gerald Ford was sworn in as president on August 9, 1974, in a ceremony in the East Room
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Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln Available on: Digital Download
"Fourscore and seven years ago our
fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation... |
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Global 3.0 by Chris Farrell Available on: Online Audio
For many, globalization has meant rich
countries getting richer at the expense of the poor. Today, it's not that simple. |
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Globalization and the Economic Downturn by Lester Thurow Available on: Online Video
Globalization is for the first time being
hit by a global economic hard landing. What happens to globalization in the process? |
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Globalization and the Future of Corporate Citizenship by Richard M. Locke Available on: Online Video
Professor Locke discusses the opportunities
and challenges that multinational companies face in a global economy. |
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Ground Zero: The Design Competition by Rafael Vinoly Available on: Online Video
Rafael Vinoly and Frederic Schwartz led
the THINK team, whose design was one of two finalists for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation’s World Trade
Center design competition. |
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Hans-Hermann Hoppe: Mises Institute Lectures by Hans-Hermann Hoppe Available on: Digital Download | Online Video
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
(born September 2, 1949) is an Austrian school economist, an anarcho-capitalist (libertarian) philosopher, and a professor
at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. |
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Hard Time by John Biewen Available on: Online Audio
After an historic, generation-long prison
expansion, American prisons are now releasing more than 600,000 inmates each year. |
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Harry S. Truman Inauguration Speech 1949 by Harry S. Truman Available on: Digital Download
In his 1949 inauguration speech,
Harry S. Truman addressed the concerns facing a post-WWII United States... |
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Historical Consciousness, Patriotism, and the American Experiment by Wilfred M. Clay Available on: Online Audio | Online Video
The Intercollegiate Studies
Institute Lecture Program assists in sponsoring lectures each year at the college, university, and preparatory school levels.
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History and the Moral Imagination by Russell Kirk Available on: Online Audio
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute Lecture
Program assists in sponsoring lectures each year at the college, university, and preparatory school levels. |
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Housing the Lowest Income Americans by Lawrence Vale Available on: Online Video
Vale provides a historical overview of
public housing in America and shares insights from his most recent book Reclaiming Public Housing. |
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Howard Dean and Richard Perle Foreign Policy Debate by Howard Dean Available on: Digital Download
The new chairman of the Democratic National
Committee, Howard Dean, and former Pentagon adviser Richard Perle debate foreign policy at Pacific University's "Tom McCall
Forum" in Portland, OR. |
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Human Rights Law in the Americas by Jennifer Harbury Available on: Online Video
Jennifer Harbury tells the horrific
story of her husband's capture, detainment, torture and execution in Guatemala at the hands of the Guatemalan military. |
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I've Been to the Mountaintop by Martin Luther King, Jr. Available on: Digital Download
"And so I'm happy, tonight.
I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man! Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!!" |
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The Idea of Universality in Linguistics and Human Rights by Noam Chomsky Available on: Online Video
If humans have a common, in-born capacity
for language, and for such complex behaviors as morality, might the faculties be somehow linked? |
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Institutions vs. People by Noam Chomsky Available on: Online Video
Noam Chomsky has written and lectured widely
on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history, international affairs and U.S. foreign policy. |
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Institutions, Geography, and Growth by Roberto Rigobon Available on: Online Video
Three billion people on earth live on
less than two dollars a day. A relative handful of us fare astronomically better. How do economists account for global “haves”
and “have-nots”? |
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Intellectual Journey by John Kenneth Galbraith Available on: Online Video
John Kenneth Galbraith speaks
about his life and work. |
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Investigating the Bush Administration’s Misuse of Science by Philip Morrison Available on: Online Video
In a just-published map of salt in seawater,
Philip Morrison reads two lessons: the world is above all a physical place, so we need science to know about it; and science
is telling us startling new things all the time. |
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Is Preemptive War in order to Promote a Free Society Justified? by Victor Davis Hanson Available on: Online Audio | Online Video
From ISI's Cicero's
Podium: A Great Issues Debate Series. |
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Islam and the Challenge of Democracy by Tom Ashbrook Available on: Online Video
As the period of rebuilding Iraq begins,
this panel takes on the big questions of political systems and religion based value systems—can Islam and democracy
co-exist in the Arab world? |
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Jeffrey Herbener: Mises Institute Lecture by Jeffrey Herbener Available on: Digital Download | Online Video
Jeff Herbener is
a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He is a professor at Grove City College. |
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George W. Bush Inauguration Speech 2001 by George W. Bush Available on: Digital Download
In his 2001 inaugural address, George
W. Bush speaks of a compassionate America... |
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