Historian Tim Tyson tells Anne Strainchamps about the racially motivated murder that has informed much of General William Tecumseh Sherman's professional life.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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For writer and educator Parker Palmer, solitude is essential to recharging and gaining new perspective on life. He's just returned from a week-long retreat in the winter woods of Wisconsin, and stopped by our studio to talk about what what he gains from being alone.
Roger Ebert won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 and is probably the most famous movie critic in America. He talks with Steve Paulson about the movie genre known as film noir.
Marion Nestle is a long-time food industry activist and the author of "Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning)." She explains why sodas are about race and class in America.
Have you made it all the way through Tolstoy's "War and Peace?" Well, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky took on the task of retranslating the classic...
Terry Ryan tells Jim Fleming that her mother loved crafting contest entries and matched her efforts to the tastes of specific judges. And we hear some of her winning verses.
Stan Freberg visits Jim Fleming and explains how he got into advertising, and why his commercials always tell the truth.
In Sacred Economics, Charles Eisenstein writes that we need to get our economic systems into alignment with our values. He says the indebtness, competition and scarcity leave us anxious and unhappy. In this extended conversation, he digs down to what he sees as the root of the problem with our financial system, and what we can do about it.
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