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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Is your marriage passionate? Can we feel thrilled by the same person we look to for intimacy and security?

Esther Perel says, "Yes." She's the author of Mating in Captivity.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Rob Brezsny is a poet, musician, astrologer and the author of “Pronoia Is the Antidote to Paranoia.” He tells Anne Strainchamps that pronoia sees the world as fundamentally friendly...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

When we think of slavery, many of us think of it as an historic trauma—something in the past that the nation"overcame" to become what it is today. But according to Edward Baptist, the instution of slavery drove the economic development and modernization of the United States, and laid the groundwork for American capitalism as we know it today.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mr. Cutlets loves meat.  He rhapsodizes about pork chops and his favorite steaks with Jim Fleming.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Joelle Biele discusses the correspondences between poet Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

If there was an environmental Hall of Fame, Gus Speth would be a charter member. The former dean of the Yale School of Forestry, he's the founder of the World Resources Institute and cofounder of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He says we need get past our fixation on economic growth if we want to curb global warming.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paula Kamen has had the same headache for 14 years. Her book is “All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Robert Wright tells Steve Paulson that the history of monotheism was shaped by the political events of the turbulent ancient Middle East and that Jesus was not a prophet of peace but a typical Jewish apocalyptic preacher obsessed with the approaching End Times.

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