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People's stories recorded from the Oral History Collection of the Civil Rights Heritage Center at the Indiana University South Bend Archives. Telling the history of the civil rights movement and the experiences of Black, Latinx, LGBTQ, and other marginalized peoples in South Bend, Indiana. For more, visit crhc.iusb.edu.
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Nature and the Nation explores politics, philosophy, psychology, sociology and economics from a naturalistic, paleoconservative perspective, using the format of a book review. I examine books published in a wide array of time periods, with a special emphasis on the early to middle 20th century, the ancient Greeks, and of course the present.
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Listen with me to Voices along the Way who inspire us toward the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
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Review: Thucydides on Justice, Power, and Human Nature edited by Paul Woodruff
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In this episode I look at the conflict between Democracy and Oligarchy in the Peloponnesian War as described by Thucydides and translated and abridged by Paul Woodruff.By Dylan John
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Review: Social Darwinism in American Thought by Richard Hofstadter
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In this episode I look at the late 19th Century Darwinian Conservatism of Herbert Spencer, William Graham Sumner, and reactions by William James and others as described in Richard Hofstadter's Social Darwinism in American Thought.By Dylan John
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Joaquin Robles on four decades in the Latine community in South Bend
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After growing up in Puerto Rico, Joaquin Robles moved to South Bend, Indiana, and lived forty-plus years here. Joaquin talks about his experiences in this city, and his perspectives on multi-generational discrimination and evolution of the Latine community here. This episode was produced by Jon Watson from the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts…
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Review: The Social Contract Theorists (Hobbes's War of All Against All) edited by Chris Morris
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In this episode I look at Gregory Kavka's 'Hobbes's War of All Against All' in The Social Contract Theorists edited by Christopher W. Morris, with a special focus on the prisoner's dilemma and nation size.By Dylan John
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Review: History of Political Philosophy (Rousseau) edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey
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In this episode I return to Strauss and Cropsey collection, History of Political Philosophy, to focus on Alan Bloom's examination of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the general will, and the potential conflict between nature and custom.By Dylan John
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Review: The Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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In this episode I wander through Rousseau's final book, published posthumously, The Reveries of the Solitary Walker. I look at the difference between youth and old age, trusting yourself and others, and the nature of reverie itself.By Dylan John
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Review: The Rise and Fall of Scottish Common Sense Realism by Douglas McDermid
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In this episode I take a first look at Scottish Common Sense Philosophy as described by Douglas McDermid in The Rise and Fall of Scottish Common Sense Realism, with the aim of providing an overview of the major themes of Thomas Reid and his contemporaries.By Dylan John
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Charlotte Huddleston on African Americans in nursing
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As the only African American Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) at South Bend, Indiana’s Memorial Hospital in the late 1960s, Charlotte Huddleston shares her perspective on racism in healthcare, housing, and in education. This episode is the first of a new format for “South Bend’s Own Words,” featuring more of the back story behind the history. We hope…
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Since 2017, for 54 episodes, you’ve been with us as we’ve gone back into South Bend’s history. And next week, we’re presenting a new format for “South Bend’s Own Words.” It still shares stories of people who worked to make this city change—real stories told by them, in their own voices. Look for the first of the new episodes to arrive in this same …
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Review: A Republic, Not an Empire by Patrick Buchanan
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In this episode I examine Buchanan's case for non-interventionism, or isolationism, as made in A Republic, Not an Empire. I take a look a the League of Nations and US policy after the Cold War.By Dylan John
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Review: Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg
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In this episode I look at Jonah Goldberg's examination of the fascist tendencies of President Woodrow Wilson in his classic book, Liberal Fascism.By Dylan John
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Review: To Make Men Free by Heather Cox Richardson
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In this episode I look at two Republican Presidents, Taft and Harding, as detailed in Heather Cox Richardson's history of the Republican Party, To Make Men Free.By Dylan John
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The Pursuit of Certainty by Shirley Robin Letwin
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In this episode I look at Letwin's collection of philosophical biographies, The Pursuit of Certainty, with a special focus on David Hume and his thoughts on virtue, prudence, and politics.By Dylan John
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In this episode, I explore Eric Hoffer's description of the various types of people that constitute the leaders and followers of mass movements, as described in his classic 1951 book, The True Believer.By Dylan John
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Review: The Sophists by W. K. C. Guthrie
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In this episode I examine the competing forces of Physis (Nature) and Nomos (Custom) as detailed in the erudite examination The Sophists by W. K. C. Guthrie.By Dylan John
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Elmer Joseph, on west side Black owned businesses
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A Mississippi native who moved to South Bend in 1944 speaks about Black businesses on the west side. Elmer Joseph came to South Bend from a resort community in Mississippi. His family was financially well off, yet still deeply impacted by Jim Crow segregation. He attended an all-Black school—and experienced a huge culture shock when he moved to Sou…
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Review: From Religion to Philosophy by F. M. Cornford
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In this episode I examine the connections between Nomos, Physis, and Moira in early Greek philosophy as detailed by Cornford in From Religion to Philosophy.By Dylan John
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In this episode I look at the violent glory of war in Homer's Iliad, as detailed in Bernard Knox's introduction to the Robert Fagles translation of this classic epic poem of war, and several choice readings of the battle for the Argive ships.By Dylan John
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Review: Sailing the Wine Dark Sea by Thomas Cahill
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In this episode I look at Thomas Cahill's examination of Ancient Greece in Sailing the Wine Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter. I pay special attention to the first three chapter where Cahill discusses Homer and his great works, The Iliad and the Odessey.By Dylan John
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Review: History of Political Philosophy (Hume) edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey
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In this episode I explore another essay in Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey's massive History of Political Philosophy 3rd Edition. This time it's David Hume and his so-called skepticism, which I call into question on account of his deference to habit and custom. This episode is the fourth of a series.By Dylan John
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Review: History of Political Philosophy (Montesquieu) edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey
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In this episode I explore another essays in Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey's massive History of Political Philosophy 3rd Edition, this time looking at an essay by David Lowenthal that discusses Montesquieu and the various types of regimes, and the English synthesis of them. This episode is the third of a series.…
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Review: History of Political Philosophy (Locke) edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey
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In this episode I explore another essays in Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey's massive History of Political Philosophy 3rd Edition, this time looking at an essay by Robert A. Goldwin discussing John Locke and his theories of the state of nature vs the state of war, and his thoughts on the right of rebellion. This episode is the second of a series.…
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Review: History of Political Philosophy (Hobbes) edited by Joseph Cropsey and Leo Strauss
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In this episode I examine one of the many essays in Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey's massive History of Political Philosophy 3rd Edition, detailing the thoughts of Thomas Hobbes. This essay by Laurence Berns discusses the weaknesses of Hobbes' conception of sovereignty. This episode is the first of a series.…
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Odie Mae Streets, on passing in the early 20th century
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A 1931 graduate of South Bend’s Central High School talks about her experiences growing up in a resort town of Kentucky, and the discrimination she experienced as a white-passing African American woman both in the south and in South Bend. Odie Mae Johnson Streets was born in Chicago before moving with her family to Dawson Springs, Kentucky. In the …
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Review: Trade Wars Against America by WIlliam Gill
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In this episode I revisit the history of trade policy in America, with Gill's book Trade Wars Against America. I look especially at the 2nd half of the 19th Century and Woodrow Wilson.By Dylan John
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Review: Pragmatism: A Reader (Part 2) edited by Louis Menand
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In this episode I revisit Louis Menand's collection of Pragmatist writings, Pragmatism: A Reader, with an eye toward the more recent writers. I discuss Richard Rorty's Postmodernist Bourgeois Liberalism and Richard Bernstein's Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Healing of Wounds.By Dylan John
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Review: Pragmatism: A Reader (Part 1) edited by Louis Menand
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In this episode I look at some of the early pragmatist writings, in particular The Will to Believe by William James, and The Ethics of Democracy by John Dewey. This episode is the first of a two part series on this book.By Dylan John
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Review: The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
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In this episode I look at the evolutionary exposition of Richard Dawkins in his classic The Blind Watchmaker, with a closer look at how DNA replicates and evolves.By Dylan John
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Review: The Essential William James edited by John R. Shook
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In this episode I look at a few of William James' early essays What Is an Emotion? and The Function of Cognition, and I make a particular examination of his essay The Dilemma of Determinism.By Dylan John
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Gail Brodie, west side community organizer
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Gail Brodie lived her entire life in her beloved west side community. She even has an honorary street named after her. Her mother, Annette Brodie, was a long-time community activist during the late 1960s. Annette pushed city leaders to provide basic services, like paving their dusty, dirt streets. Gail took on her mother’s community work and became…
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In this episode I examine the deterministic vision of the nature of the universe as described by P. W. Atkins in The Creation.By Dylan John
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Review: Essays on a Science of Mythology by C. G. Jung and C. Kerenyi
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In this episode I explore the myth of the divine child, viewed through both historical myths and the archetypes of the collective unconscious, in the collaborative book by both Carl Jung and Carl Kerenyi, Essays on a Science of Mythology.By Dylan John
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Review: Patriarchs of Time by Samuel L. Macey
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In this episode I look at the ancient Roman god of Saturn and the festival of Saturnalia, as described in Samuel Macey's Patriarchs of Time.By Dylan John
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In this episode I explore the lack of myth in our modern world, as described by Rollo May in The Cry for Myth.By Dylan John
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Luke 24:36-53 - Jesus Appearsto His Disciples
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Preached at Grace Evangelical Church in Congo Town, Liberia
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Andre Buchanan grew up in South Bend’s east side African American community in a house that, today, is threatened by the rampant construction of the Eddy Street shopping areas right by the Trader Joe’s. During the mid-1940s, when he was in the fourth grade, Andre was one of the first students of color to attend Saint Joseph Catholic grade school. D…
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Review: The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
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In this episode I look at The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell, with a particular emphasis on his definitions of myth, archetype, metaphor, and transcendence.By Dylan John
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Review: Free Trade Doesn't Work by Ian Fletcher
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In this episode I look at the phenomenal book Free Trade Doesn't Work by Ian Fletcher. I focus on Fletcher's overview of trade deficits and his explanation of the theory of comparative advantage.By Dylan John
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Review: The National System of Political Economy by Friedrich List
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In this episode I look at one of the most important of protectionist treatises, The National System of Political Economy by Friedrich List, with a particular focus on Book 2: The Theory.By Dylan John
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Review: The Nature of Economies by Jane Jacobs
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In this episode, I look at the connections between ecosystems and economies, as described by Jane Jacobs in The Nature of Economies.By Dylan John
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Review: Henry Clay and the American System by Maurice Baxter
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In this episode I look at Henry Clay's attempts to get tariff legislation passed in the early 19th Century, in Maurice Baxter's Henry Clay and they American System.By Dylan John
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Review: Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
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In this episode I look at the basic premise of economic theory as presented by Henry Hazlitt in his classic Economics in One Lesson. I look closely at his discussion of tariffs, and provide a counter-argument that examines the tax burden of tariffs and the elasticity of supply and demand.By Dylan John
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Over the past two years, doctors Jamie Wagman and Julia Dauer from Saint Mary’s College collected local stories of those impacted by the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. Last year, they gave a public presentation with clips from some of the narrators who graciously shared their stories. They did it again this past September at the Saint Joseph County P…
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Review: The Great Betrayal by Pat Buchanan
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In this episode I examine the case for protectionism and against free trade, as described by Pat Buchanan in his book The Great Betrayal.By Dylan John
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Review: The Republican Workers Party by F. H. Buckley
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In this episode I look at several types of American Nationalism as described by F. H. Buckley in his book The Republican Workers Party. I argue against his position on Liberal Nationalism.By Dylan John
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Ruperto Guedea lived the majority of his life in the United States straddling multiple cultures. Born into a small mining community in northern Mexico during the late 1930s, his mother and father brought their family across the border just after World War II. His first school was openly hostile towards Spanish speakers yet did not teach him English…
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Review: The Will to Believe by William James
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In this episode I examine the essay 'The Sentiment of Rationality' from William James' collection of essays, The Will to Believe. This essay shows the early signs of James' Pragmatism.By Dylan John
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Review: Pragmatism: From Peirce to Davidson by John P. Murphy
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In this episode I look at the origins of philosophical Pragmatism in John Muphy's Pragmatism. I look especially at Charles Peirce and his ideas about doubt and truth.By Dylan John
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Review: T. R. The Last Romantic by H. W. Brands
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In this episode I explore Teddy Roosevelt's relationship with Japan, as described in T. R. The Last Romantic by H. W. Brands. I pay particular attention to Roosevelt's failure to heed the concerns of California's immigration restrictionists.By Dylan John
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