Kathleen Parker believes that popular culture portrays men as incompetent fools and classrooms ignore material of interest to boys. She says intelligent women need someone else to talk to, much less to marry and raise children with, so it's in women's interest to fix this.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Michael Zweig tells Steve Paulson that a lot of Americans who think they're middle class are actually working class.
Tour guides get paid more than surgeons in Cuba. Why? Tips from foreigners, especially Americans. Rosa Ricardo describes her life as a tour guide.
Do you need an advanced degree in math or physics to make discoveries about the cosmos? Science writer Margaret Wertheim says thousands of amateur scientists have proposed their own theories about the universe.
Mr. Cutlets loves meat. He rhapsodizes about pork chops and his favorite steaks with Jim Fleming.
John Van de Ruit is an actor, writer, and producer who lives in South Africa and has created a phenomenon with his novels "Spud" and its sequel "Spud: The Madness Continues."
Novelist Mark Salzman talks about his experience teaching creative writing at Central Juvenile Hall in Los Angeles, a detention center for L.A.’s most serious young offenders.
Matthew Klamm, Thisbe Nissen, and Emma Richler talk with Steve Paulson about the lives of young writers and how their attitudes differ from those of their parents’ generation.
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