Secular Sunday

Lectures, music and books designed to escape the bread and circus of spectator sport extravaganzas tjhat dominate American popular media.

A current edition of Point of Inquiry featuring Amanda Marcotte, a regular on RFK's late night "This Way Out Tuesday" with the RH Reality Cast. She will be one of the featured speakers at the upcoming, "Women in Secularism" conference. The March 18th conversation with POI host Chris Mooney is titled, "Skepticism Needs Feminism."

Then Jay Lockenour will interview Stanley Payne on his book The Spanish Civil War for the New Books Network.

From the program summary: "Published by Cambridge University Press as part of its Essential Histories series, Payne’s work synthesizes a lifetime of study in Spain, laying out the origins of the civil war in Spain’s deeply fractured political culture, and tracing the international and military developments that led to Francisco Franco’s eventual triumph in 1939. As Payne points out, the Spanish Civil War has been mythologized for political purposes since the day it began, much to the detriment of our understanding of the real story."

Also from NBN, Heath Brown inteviews Isaac Campos about his book "Homegrown: Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico's War on Drugs" University North Carolina Press.

Music provided by Joyce Har Lindorff playing the harpsichord.

Short poetry and essays provided by the volunteer readers at Libris Vox.