Karen Armstrong talks with Anne Strainchamps about her tangled path back to God after leaving the convent.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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If you think the American middle class has it bad, consider life in debt-ridden Italy or Greece. Best-selling financial writer Michael Lewis portrays the downfall of several European countries with his usual verve, in Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World.
Robert Greenwald supports the Obama administration but thinks they're dead wrong about Afghanistan.
Millard Kaufman has a long string of successes, including two Oscar nominations as a screen writer. He tells Jim Fleming why he decided to take on a new kind of writing.
If evolution is a game called survival of the fittest, how do you explain altruism? The “altruism equation” is a mathematical rule discovered by George Price...
Lisa Lieberman is the author of “Leaving You: The Cultural Meaning of Suicide.” She talks about the suicide of her grandfather and the extravagant narratives left by 19th century suicides.
Acclaimed novelist Martin Amis talks about growing up as the son of another famous novelist — Kingsley Amis.
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