Jim Crace's novel "The Pesthouse" takes place in America after an un-named eco-disaster has decimated the population and destroyed much of our hi-tech civilization.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Moustafa Bayoumi talks with Jim Fleming about how 9/11 caused him to feel like an outsider in his own country.
Historian John D’Emilio is the author of “Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin.” D’Emilio says that Rustin was crucial to the civil rights movement but has been forgotten because he was gay
If your mind is nothing more than brain chemistry, do you have free will? In this EXTENDED interview, cognitive neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga says new brain science should change our thinking about this old philosophical question.
Richard Perle tells Steve Paulson that Iran is harboring Al Quaeda people; that the U.S. should always be on the side on people fighting for freedom and that his reputation as “the Prince of Darkness” results from a case of mistaken identity.
Astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss tells Steve Paulson that the latest news in cosmology is that the universe is still expanding and at an accelerating rate.
Historian Joseph Persico tells Jim Fleming that Roosevelt loved the thrilling, clandestine aspects of espionage, and had to learn to appreciate the advantages of electronic spying.
Maria Suarez tells the story of the five years she spent as a slave and the twenty three years she spent in prison for a murder she didn't commit. Today, Maria is active with a group called "Free the Slaves."
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