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Conversations about books with the people who wrote them. Hosted by Marianne Barisonek
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Signup to Generate a PitchRecent episodes include "Episode 13: Dana Fisher - Saving Ourselves" (19 June 2026, 30 minutes), "Episode 12: Gareth Gore - Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church" (6 June 2026, 30 minutes), and "Episode 11: Paul Johnson - Challenging Inequalities" (23 May 2026, 30 minutes).
The Progressive Page Turner publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 30 minutes across 15 episodes.
Booking probability for The Progressive Page Turner is 17%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Progressive Page Turner requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Progressive Page Turner's contact route on record: public web form.
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The Progressive Page Turner is a news podcast with 15 episodes published.
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Episode #13
“Shift will involve sections of the world becoming uninhabitable, leading to mass migration as well as pain, suffering, and death around the world.” Dana Fisher Saving Ourselves: From Climate shocks to Climate Action...
Gareth Gore has been investigating the secretive Catholic sect, Opus Dei, for years. His interest in the organization started when a Spanish bank collapsed in the early 2000’s. As a financial reporter he followed the...
Paul Johnson takes a look at the impact of economic inequalities in the US and the UK in his book Challenging Inequalities.
In September of 2025 Marjorie Taylor Greene called for a national divorce arguing that Red and Blue states had so little in common it was time for them to part company. She isn’t alone. There are secession movements on...
There is an epidemic of loneliness in the United States. Alone, we watch the country slide away from democracy and toward dictatorship. We need to band together to fight for what had already been won. Staying in it for...
What if we have it all wrong? We accept unemployment, inflation, low wages, lack of access to healthcare and education, periodic recessions, ecological collapse, food insecurity and endless wars as inevitable. The...
The cost to our nation from militarized borders goes beyond the cost of enforcement. Both legal and undocumented migrants pay into our tax system. They boost the economy by spending money on the basics like food and...
When the Heritage Foundation published Project 2025 in 2023 the goals seemed so radical that many dismissed the threat as far-fetched. But as the Trump presidency steamrolls over accepted norms, court orders and public...
For the first time in over a hundred years salmon are returning to historical spawning grounds in the Klamath River. After four hydroelectric dams were removed the river came back to life. Wild salmon, once on the brink...
The only metric for our economic system is the growth of wealth. Who gets that wealth or how that growth impacts people’s lives and the planetary life support system is never part of the equation. This has created the...
How are intimate violence and geopolitical violence linked? Both are expressions of male dominance. The imbalance in our culture toward masculine values has impoverished us all. In her book All We Want is Everything...
Episode #2
The saying goes that "people can imagine the end of the world easier than imagining the end of capitalism." I know it seems insane but what if we geared society to produce for sufficiency instead of profit? We might...
Episode #1
The imperative to stop burning fossil fuels and a proliferation of new tech gadgets like cell phones and smart everything has businesses and governments scrambling to procure the metals that make the magic happen...
It's dawning on a growing number of people that the lack of any sort of rational and effective response to the climate crisis is bringing us toward a Thelma and Louise ending for industrial civilization. The hope for a...
Episode #24
As we scramble to create a more sustainable version of our civilization much of the focus has been on technology. But electric cars and reusable containers will only take us so far. From mountaintop removal to factory...
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author of Opus, Opus Dei
parishioner, teacher, and past professor at Conception Seminary College, The Queen's College, University of Oxford
Author of Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together, Mutual Aid and Love in a Fucked Up World
professor of economics at the University of Tulsa, Forum for Real Economic Emancipation
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