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Oct 28, 2024

Matt Crawford speaks with author Lezlee Liljenberg about her book, If You Only Knew: Navigating DNA Surprises and the NPE(Not-Parent Expected) World. What would you do if you discovered your father is not your biological father? Or your mother is not the woman that gave birth to you? This is what happened to author...


Oct 25, 2024

Matt Crawford speaks with journalist and author Rachel Zimmerman about her book, Us, After. July 1, 2014, Seth Teller, a loving father and husband died by suicide. Rachel and her daughters were thrown into a world they never could have imagined and had to find their way out of the darkness to the light. Us, After,...


Oct 24, 2024

Matt Crawford speaks with national radio host and author Thom Hartman about his book, The Hidden History of the American Dream: The Demise of the Middle Class and how to Rescue Our Democracy. How has the United State gone from a stronghold of Democracy and the middle class to where we are now? It is harder than ever to...


Oct 23, 2024

Matt Crawford speaks with educator and author Matthew Ferrence about his book, I Hate It Here, Please Vote for Me: Essays on Rural Decay. When a progressive college professor runs for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in a deeply conservative rural district, he loses. That’s no surprise. But the story of...


Oct 22, 2024

Matt Crawford speaks with author Nolan Higdon and his and Dr. Allison Butler's book, Surveillance Education: Navigating the Conspicuous Absence of Privacy in Schools. 

In our era of surveillance capitalism, digital media technologies are ever more intertwined into the educational process. Schools are presented with...