On today’s July 4th holiday broadcast:

0:08 Historian Adam Hochschild joins us to discuss the Americans who volunteered to fight fascism before defeating it was the policy of their country. We discuss his book Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.

1:08 – A journey into the sounds of nature and the threats to them, we speak with David George Haskell (@DGHaskell), Guggenheim fellow, professor of biology, and environmental studies at Sewanee: the university of the south, about his latest book, Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction.

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