If you're a regular listener to NPR news programs, you're probably familiar with the occasional brief commentary
during the morning or evening news programs by experts in various fields; people providing insight into public
affairs, observations on the arts, and thoughts on how we live. This page contains transcripts and/or audio
recordings of local commentaries that have aired on WYSU.
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Commentator
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Topic
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Transcript
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Date
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Download
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| - Matthew T. Mangino | Mandatory Retirement for Judges | Text | March 26, 2013 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Elyn Saks | Text | March 21, 2013 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Etiquette in Today's World | Text | March 5, 2013 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Sam Harris on Guns | Text | January 10, 2013 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Juan Williams Part Two | Text | December 28, 2012 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Juan Williams Part One | Text | December 27, 2012 | mp3 | wma |
| - Dr. Keith Lepak | The Fiscal Cliff | Text | December 19, 2012 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | John Stossel, Gadfly | Text | December 13, 2012 | Unavailable |
| - Tom Shipka | Race One and Race Two | Text | November 29, 2012 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Eben Alexander's Journey into the Afterlife | Text | November 15, 2012 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Harrison on Religon | Text | November 8, 2012 | mp3 | wma |
| - Matthew T. Mangino | The Cost of Pretrial Detention | Text | October 26, 2012 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | The Invisible Gorilla | Text | October 25, 2012 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Popular Beliefs | Text | October 16, 2012 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Jim Abbott | Text | September 13, 2012 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Free Will | Text | July 19, 2012 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Abundance | Text | June 28, 2012 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Bertrand Russell, Prophet | Text | March 8, 2012 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | John Dewey on Religion | Text | February 16, 2012 | Unavailable |
| - Tom Shipka | Michael Shermer, Skeptic | Text | January 19, 2012 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Marriage in America | Text | July 28, 2011 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Rob Bell | Text | July 14, 2011 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | The Class of '61 | Text | July 4, 2011 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | James Haught | Text | April 20, 2011 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Marlo Thomas | Text | March 23, 2011 | mp3 | wma |
| - Carole Babyak | The History of the Civil War Part 2 | Unavailable | March 14, 2011 | mp3 | wma |
| - Carole Babyak | The History of the Civil War | Unavailable | February 24, 2011 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Richard P. Stevens | Text | February 16, 2011 | mp3 | wma |
| - Carole Babyak | Wintertime Birds | Unavailable | January 17, 2011 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Krista Tippet | Text | December 29, 2010 | mp3 | wma |
| - Carole Babyak | Blackbirds | Unavailable | December 21, 2010 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Lou Holtz | Text | November 24, 2010 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Jeremiad | Text | October 27, 2010 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Chris Hedges | Text | September 21, 2010 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Tiger Woods | Text | August 26, 2010 | mp3 | wma |
| - Carole Babyak | Leave Only Footprints | Text | December 15, 2009 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Religion in the Public Schools | Text | October 15, 2009 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Is Socialism Coming? | Text | September 24, 2009 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | John Stuart Mill on Women's Rights | Text | September 3, 2009 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Cellphones - A Moral Challenge | Text | August 20, 2009 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Isaiah's Resilience | Text | August 6, 2009 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Richard A. Clarke on National Security | Text | July 23, 2009 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Carrie Fisher | Unavailable | July 9, 2009 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Political History | Text | June 25, 2009 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Faith Based Policies | Text | June 11, 2009 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Suicide Terrorism | Text | May 29, 2009 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | American Religious Identification Survey 2008 | Text | April 23, 2009 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Ted Kennedy's Legacy | Text | April 10, 2009 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Christopher Hitchens on Religion | Text | March 19, 2009 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | John Haught and the New Atheists | Text | March 2, 2009 | mp3 | wma |
| - Carole Babyak | Wonders of a Garden | Unavailable | February 23, 2009 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Faith Healing and Children | Text | February 19, 2009 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Rabbi Wolpe | Text | February 12, 2009 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Sidney Poiter | Text | January 22, 2009 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Charles Curran's Rocky Road | Text | January 8, 2009 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Religious Illiteracy | Text | December 26, 2008 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Galbraith on Global Warming and Planning | Text | December 11, 2008 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | A Lesson from Scandinavia | Text | December 2, 2008 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Are American Voters Stupid? | Text | November 14, 2008 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | New Atheists | Text | October 31, 2008 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Chris Hedges | Text | October 10, 2008 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Coach Jim Tressel | Text | September 30, 2008 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Mistakes Were Made (but not by me) | Text | September 12, 2008 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | The Faith-Based White House | Unavailable | August 29, 2008 | Unavailable |
| - Tom Shipka | What Ever Happened to Jefferson and Madison? | Text | August 14, 2008 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Energy: The Turning Point | Text | August 5, 2008 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | For A New Thrift Part 2 | Text | July 17, 2008 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | For A New Thrift Part 1 | Text | July 3, 2008 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Edward Filene | Text | June 19, 2008 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Cost of Family Fragmentation to Taxpayers | Text | June 6, 2008 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | So You Want to be a Professor? | Text | May 22, 2008 | mp3 | wma |
| - Lou Zona | Ghosts | Text | May 15, 2008 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Confronting the Debt Culture | Text | May 8, 2008 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | U.S. Religious Landscape Survey | Text | April 24, 2008 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Cultural Relativism | Text | April 3, 2008 | mp3 | wma |
| - Regina Reynolds | Jeremiah Wright | Text | March 24, 2008 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Senator Obama on Religion | Text | March 6, 2008 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | The Gospel of Prosperity under Fire | Text | February 21, 2008 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Justice Brennan's Dissent | Text | February 7, 2008 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Judge Jones | Text | December 13, 2007 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Thanksgiving | Text | November 29, 2007 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School
District | Text | November 8, 2007 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | World Religions in Modesto | Text | October 25, 2007 | mp3 | wma |
| - Lou Zona | Baseball | Text | October 4, 2007 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Mark Lilla | Text | September 27, 2007 | mp3 | wma |
| - Lou Zona | Big Brother | Text | September 20, 2007 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Skipka | The Power of Belief | Text | September 13, 2007 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | Paul Kurtz | Text | August 30, 2007 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | The Christian Reconstructionists | Text | August 17, 2007 | mp3 | wma |
| - Tom Shipka | The Religious Right in the Post-Falwell Era | Text | August 2, 2007 | Unavailable |
| - Tom Shipka | Hein v. Freedom from Religion Foundation, Inc. | Text | July 19, 2007 | Unavailable |
| - Tom Shipka | Religion and Morality | Text | June 14, 2007 | Unavailable |
| - Tom Shipka | A 1981 Warning About Religion and Politics | Text | May 16, 2007 | Unavailable |
| - Tom Shipka | A Day with Ted Williams | Text | April 17, 2007 | Unavailable |
| - Tom Shipka | Would You Vote for an Atheist or Agnostic? | Text | April 5, 2007 | Unavailable |
| - Tom Shipka | Bernard Rollin, a Dog's Best Friend | Text | March 1, 2007 | Unavailable |
| - Tom Shipka | Robert Green Ingersoll, The Shakespeare of Or | Text | February 8, 2007 | Unavailable |
| - Tom Shipka | Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck | Text | January 19, 2007 | Unavailable |
| - Tom Shipka | The Costs of College and Perceived Value | Text | January 3, 2007 | Unavailable |
| - Tom Shipka | Garry Wills, A Country Ruled by Faith | Text | November 23, 2006 | Unavailable |
| - Tom Shipka | Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian nation | Text | November 8, 2006 | Unavailable |
| - Tom Shipka | Are You a Critical Thinker? | Text | November 1, 2006 | Unavailable |
| - Tom Shipka | Liberty or Security - A False Dilemma | Text | October 24, 2006 | Unavailable |
| - Tom Shipka | Ayaan Hirsi Ali : A Voice of Dissent in Islam | Text | October 12, 2006 | Unavailable |
| - Tom Shipka | Chris Hedges | Text | December 31, 1969 | Unavailable |
WYSU-FM would
like to offer an opportunity to Youngstown State University’s
many intelligent, insightful, and creative faculty and staff
to provide thought-provoking commentary and analysis on
timely topics that would be of general interest to our audience.
If you would like to have your commentary considered for
broadcast, or would like to explore an idea for a commentary,
please read the guidelines below and get in touch with Gary
Sexton by phone, e-mail or fax. Contact information is included
below.
Editorial Guidelines for WYSU-FM Commentaries
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The topic should be thought provoking, timely, and of interest to our audience.
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WYSU-FM management retains full editorial control on the commentaries.
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The reading of the commentary must meet WYSU-FM’s standards.
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Commentary length must be between two and three minutes.
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The commentary will be produced and edited by a member of WYSU-FM’s staff.
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Commentaries will air during either Morning Edition or All Things Considered.
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For consideration, submit a written copy to:
Gary Sexton
WYSU-FM
Youngstown State University
One University Plaza
Youngstown, Ohio 44555
Phone: 330-941-1778
Fax: 330-941-1501
sexton@wysu.org