In 1975, Dr. Raymond Moody coined the term "near death experience" and published the first definitive account of patients who described dying and coming back to life. He tells Steve Paulson what he's come to believe after listening to thousands of reports.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Do you think the French ban on smoking in all public places is an encroachment on personal liberty that threatens French culture? Richard Klein sure thinks so.
Novelist Philip Roth talks with Steve Paulson about his work and says Nathan Zukerman had made his final appearance in Roth's new novel, "Exit Ghost."
Biographer Robert Caro tells the remarkable story of how Lyndon Johnson became president after being humiliated as vice-president by John and Robert Kennedy.
Mike Hoyt is Executive Editor of the Columbia Journalism Review. He encouraged his staff to question embedded reporters about the embed system and the war.
You know that the first settlers called Manhattan "New Amsterdam"? But the Dutch didn't just bring their sailing prowess and placenames with them. Russell Shorto thinks that liberal Dutch ideas about politics and society came too, and shaped the New World.
Rachel Simon tells Anne Strainchamps that the physical transformation of the house caused her to reflect on transforming herself and rebuilding the most important relationships in her life.
We made some particular choices about the music in hour four. Here's a note from Charles about the thinking that went into the score, and a Spotify playlist to explore.
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