Paul Campos is the author of “The Obesity Myth: Why America’s Obsession with Weight Is Hazardous to Your Health.”
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Kurt Westergaard is the Danish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban in a Danish newspaper in 2005.
Joyce Carol Oates talks with Jim Fleming about some of the stories in her book “Faithless: Tales of Transgression.”
With the militant group ISIS threatning the stability of Iraq, we're thinking about sectarianism in the country. To get some context on the divide between Iraqi Sunnis, Shias and Kurds, we turn to David Rohde. He's a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of Beyond War: Reimagining America's Role and Ambitions in a New Middle East.
Steve Paulson talks with Stephen Hawking's co-author, Caltech physicist Leonard Mlodinow about how they wrote the book and what it really says, and doesn't say.
Martha Ackmann is the author of “The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight.” Ackman says that in 1960, female astronaut trainees were expected to fly in full make-up, Chanel suits and high heels.
Peter French tells Anne Strainchamps the ancient Greeks thought revenge was a good thing, and analyzes the vengeance scenario of Clint Eastwood’s film “Unforgiven.”
What would make Christianity more vital in the 21st century? Theologian Hal Taussig says one answer is "A New New Testament," which combines Gnostic gospels with the traditional New Testament scriptures - all within the same book.
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