Susan Jacoby gives several frightening examples of the way American culture is dumbing itself down, and how poorly educated many American college graduates are.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Novelist Michelle Wildgen shares a conversation about food, art, and the creative imagination with chef and food activist Alice Waters, founder of the legendary Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse.
Steve Grand tells Jim Fleming about Norns – virtual pets that live and breed in desktop computers. He says the Norns give us a way to explore questions about what it means to be alive and what rights and responsibilities "living" creatures have.
Sarah Vowell is obsessed by presidential assassinations.
The Canadian surrealist sketch comedy trio, The Vestibules, with their brilliant commercial parody, "Laurence Olivier for Diet Coke."
Yossi Halevi is a religious Israeli Jew. He went looking for common ground with his Muslim neighbors. He describes what happened in his book “At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden.”
Terry Tempest Williams reads from her book, "Red," and talks about the desert with Steve Paulson.
You may not know Shepard Fairey but, you probably know his work. In 2008 he created the now-iconic Obama HOPE poster.
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