Wesley Stace has written a novel called "By George" is the story of a family of entertainers, as told by two boys named George - one of whom is a ventriloquist's dummy.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Scott Sandage tells Anne Strainchamps that the very meaning of failure has changed in American society over 200 years.
William Broad tells Steve Paulson how a multi-disciplinary scientific team recently proved that the secret of the ancient sisterhood of mystics in Greece...
Point of attack. Defensive Line. Football and war have a lot in common. Former foreign policy advisor to President Clinton, Michael Mandelbaum, talks conflict and the game.
Rosanne Cash is the daughter of country music legend Johnny Cash, but she's forged her own very successful career in music.
Singer-songwriter-community organizer Si Kahn tells Steve Paulson the hallmarks of a good political song, and talks about the role music has played in various social causes, including the Civil Rights movement.
Music critic Tom Moon is the author of "1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die: A Listener's Life List." Moon tells Steve Paulson why he chose what he chose and we hear some of his favorites.
There's an entire sector of the economy run by people who are working diligently to get inside your head and harvest your attention? Does that creep you out? They're called the Attention Merchants. And their business model consists of attracting your attention and then reselling it for profit. They're ad-based TV channels, clickbait producers and the big social media producers. Law professor Tim Wu is the author of "The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads."
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