Maggie Nelson recommends "Close to the Knives" by David Wojnarowicz.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Robert Weinberg tells Jim Fleming that superheroes’ powers haven’t kept up with the times and offers more up-to-date explanations of how The Incredible Hulk got that way and why Superman is so strong.
Columnist Maureen Dowd says that a lot of people still don’t understand that a columnist is supposed to have a point of view.
Animal behaviorist Patricia McConnell is the author of "For the Love of a Dog" and the host of the public radio program "Calling All Pets."
Jerome Charyn remembers the glory days of ping-pong in America. He talks about some of the great matches of the past and reflects on the worldwide popularity of the game.
Novelist Marilynne Robinson talks with Anne Strainchamps about the role of the soul in the age of modern science.
Economist E. Glen Weyl has invented a market-driven voting system that he believes is much fairer and more democratic than one-vote-per-person majority rule. It's called Quadratic Voting and it starts with giving everyone a bunch of tokens, or chips, along with a simple mathematical formula for voting.
Karal Ann Marling tells Anne Strainchamps that American Christmas traditions led to an improvement in the status of women and helped nurture manufacturing industries from candy to cardboard.
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