Jerome Charyn tells Steve Paulson about some of the great ping-pong matches of the past and reflects on the worldwide popularity of the game.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Super Bowl Sunday is on our minds, we so called on Craig Harline to recount the history of Sundays, from the ancient Sabbath to the Super Bowl.
Richard Goldstein, executive editor of the Village Voice, is appalled by the rampant chauvinism of popular culture.
What made Lincoln a great president? Was he a closet racist? We hear short interviews with Lincoln historians Doris Kearns Goodwin, Orville Vernon Burton and John Stauffer.
Novelist Jonathan Coe tells Anne Strainchamps about the careeer of experimental novelist B.S. Johnson who tried to reinvent the novel with every book he wrote.
It's the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War One, and with conflict flaring up around the globe, we started wondering just what we know about what started the war that was supposed to “end all wars.”
Novelist Louis de Bernieres tells Jim Fleming about the climate of religious toleration that marked the Ottoman Empire.
Psychologist Judith Wallerstein talks with Jim Fleming about the frightening findings from her 25 year study on children of divorce.
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