When is government surveillance appropriate? Shane Harris talks about the rise of American surveillance, cyber warfare and privacy.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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The demographics of the United States are changing: how does the latest wave of immigration fit into the historical pattern?
Historian Sean Wilentz tells Jim Fleming the birth of Dylan’s music is deeply bound up in the politics of the time.
Psychologist and philosopher Thomas Moore talks with Anne Strainchamps about the connections between springtime and death, and how flowers reflect this.
The Oxford English Dictionary was created in 1857, and was expected to be finished within ten years. The first edition was finally completed 71 years later.
For Robert Farris Thompson, the most beautiful, intimate and passionate of dances is Argentine tango.
Scientists are on the cusp of developing new technologies that could radically change how we’re born and how we die. But just because we can do it, should we? For lots of people, it’s just plain wrong for humans to play God.
But Oxford University bioethicist Julian Savulescu has a different view. He says we have a moral obligation to use new technology to create the best possible children.
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