Richard Weiss tells Steve Paulson why figures like Horatio Alger, Norman Vincent Peale and Dale Carnegie are so compelling for Americans, and why we’re unlikely to give up our national optimism.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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The rich are getting rich and the gap between the rich and poor in America is getting wider.
Ricardo Lagos, economist and former President of Chile, wants the world to know that democracy thrived in his country for more than a hundred years before Augusto Pinochet overthrew the government. In this NEW and UNCUT interview with Jim Fleming, he says it's also thriving now that Pinochet is gone.
Anne Strainchamps talks with Robert Pinsky, 39th Poet Laureate of the United States, who reads several of the poems people have been sending him since the attacks.
Juan Cole, author of "Engaging the Muslim World," tells Steve Paulson that Barack Obama has good reasons to reach out to Iran.
A New York Times film critic talks about the role of film criticism in contemporary society.
Jeanne Birdsall began writing at age 41. Her first novel became an instant classic.
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