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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Steve Levin is the producer of a documentary film, "Jerabek," which follows the family of a young Marine killed in the ambush at ar-Ramadi on April 6, 2004.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

One of the founders of queer theory says his childhood in the Pentecostal church laid the ground for his evolution as a gay man and literary scholar.  Michael Warner grew up around faith healing and speaking in tongues. He says it was an education in thinking beyond "normal". 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

A former Jain monk, Satish Kumar still follows Gandhi's principles of non-violence. He tells Jim Fleming why he thinks violence is an obsolete weapon.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Terry Jones, formerly of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, has written a book called “Who Murdered Chaucer?”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ron Mallett is a theoretical physicist at the University of Connecticut who wrote a memoir about his personal quest to travel back in time.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

He meditates 5 hours every day, charms nearly everyone he meets and urges us to be happy and compassionate. The Dalai Lama is now 80. Bestselling author Daniel Goleman reflects on the life and legacy of a singular figure in today's world.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What's Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg's Dangerous Idea? How beauty leads to scientific discovery.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sven Birkerts tried to write a novel, but realized he had more success writing about fiction than writing fiction.  He tells Steve Paulson how he became a literary critic.

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