There are currently 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the US. Jose Angel N is one example.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Australian novelist Peter Carey talks with Steve Paulson about "My Life as a Fake," and the peculiar career of the great Australian poet who never existed.
Are we ever good enough, or are we doomed to self-optimization for our entire lives?
Margot Peters is the author of “Design for Living” - a biography of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.
Harriet Tubman will soon be gracing our twenty dollar bill. Most of us know only one image of her. It's an iconic image taken later in her life in which her hair's covered in a dark cloth and she has a stern expression. But there are other images of Harriet Tubman as well, including a wood cut of her carrying a musket.
Law professor Nicholas Johnson says the image of Harriet Tubman carrying a rifle doesn’t fit with how most Americans view abolitionists and civil rights leaders. After all, weren’t they supposed to be peaceful? But as Johnson tells Steve Paulson, there's a rich tradition of Black Americans owning guns for self-defense.
Piers Vitebsky studies the Eveny or Reindeer People of Siberia. They keep herds of reindeer for meat, but also have personal, consecrated reindeer animal doubles, which they believe will die for them.
Mark Spragg grew up at Holm Lodge, the oldest dude ranch in Wyoming. He talks about growing up on horseback in the American mountain West
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