Mike Hoyt is Executive Editor of the Columbia Journalism Review. He encouraged his staff to question embedded reporters about the embed system and the war.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Anthropoligst Anne Allison talks about our love affair with Japanese pop culture.
John Vaillant's book, "The Tiger", is about a rare Amur tiger who starts killing people in a remote corner of Siberia where there is a huge trade in tiger poaching because of demand in nearby China.
Joshua Ferris talks about his novel, "To Rise Again at a Decent Hour," which made the longlist for The Man Booker Prize.
Do you think the French ban on smoking in all public places is an encroachment on personal liberty that threatens French culture? Richard Klein sure thinks so.
Captain John Dalby runs a company called Marine Risk Management that out-pirates the pirates and reclaims ships for their rightful owners.
Charles Bukowski reads his poem, "The Poetry Reading." Then, Kristen Asbjornsen speaks with Jim Fleming from her home in Norway and explains how she set Bukowski's poems to music. And we hear the results.
James Finney Boylan had gender re-assignment surgery in his 40s and is now Jennifer Finney Boylan.
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