The Visionary Activist Show – December 25, 2025
The wedding of spiritual magic and compassionate social activism with host Caroline Casey.
Featured Episode
Bookwaves/Artwaves – December 25, 2025: Joe Lansdale, Prolific Genre Writer, 2025
Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues Joe Lansdale:Author of the “Hap & Leonard” series of novels, and other genre works Post Views: 24 Joe R. Lansdale, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky f, recorded November 12, 2025, discussing his latest Hap & Leonard book, “Hatchet … Continued
Year-end roundup: some of the best of BtN 2025
Highlights of 2025: Emile Torres on the posthumanists • Quinn Slobodian on eugenics and neoliberalism • Femi Taiwo on DEI and the war on it • Kristin Du Mez on white Christian nationalism • Anatol Lieven on the Trumpian worldview • Laleh Khalili on the relationship between the Pentagon and US capitalism • and Susannah … Continued
Twenty-twenty-five’s queerest news and feature stories in review; this week’s Rainbow Rewind remembers Frank Kameny, Ma Rainey and key late December happenings; quick-study Kazakh Senators pass a “no promo homo” bill, Trump’s vile war on trans kids escalates, Congressional Republicans criminalize trans kid caregivers, a North Carolina County disbands its library board over a trans kid picture book, and St. Petersburg, Florida counters demolished rainbow crosswalks with multi-colored bike racks…Those stories and more this week, when you choose “This Way Out.”
The World Peace Game is the brainchild of educator John Hunter. He describes it as “learning to live and work comfortably in the unknown.” It’s hard to imagine a more curiosity-centric undertaking. A three-dimensional, hands-on political simulation, the World Peace Game explores the interconnectedness of the global community through economic, social, and environmental crises and … Continued
UpFront (Replay) – December 25, 2025
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.
Democracy Now! (Rebroadcast) – December 25, 2025
On today’s show: A Tribute to Blacklisted Lyricist Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
Law & Disorder – December 25, 2025
Law & Disorder exposes the cracks in our system, agitates for resistance and collectively builds a new world where all of us thrive. Hosted by Cat Brooks. Produced by Jesse Strauss.
Cultural Historian Jeff Chang on the Life of Bruce Lee
00:08 From Bruce Lee’s San Francisco origins during the segregationist era of the Chinese Exclusion Act and family’s immigration story, to his role in the lives and minds of young Asian Americans, a new book traces Lee’s story. We talk with Jeff Chang, cultural historian, about Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of … Continued
Democracy Now! – December 25, 2025
On today’s show: A Tribute to Blacklisted Lyricist Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.