Kathleen Morris talks about her experience with the mental habit monastics used to describe a kind of frantic escapism and aversion to other people. It's similar, but not identical, to the modern disease of depression.
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Politicians love to stump about the middle class and the American Dream. But the struggle to make a decent living in the United States isn’t just politics… it’s personal. Here’s a story from Arturo Camelot, a student at Tucson’s City High School.
James Finney Boylan had gender re-assignment surgery in his 40s and is now Jennifer Finney Boylan.
Philosopher Peter Singer lays out the argument that virtually everyone in America has a moral obligation to give money to help the desperately poor.
Nidhal Guessoum, an Algerian born astrophysicist agrees that contemporary science in the Arab word is abysmal, but he looks back with great pride at the Golden Age of Islam.
Journalist John Carlin talks with Steve Paulson about the 1995 rugby tournament that changed South Africa's history.
Madelon Sprengnether tells Jim Fleming that going to the movies became a form of therapy for her and helped her sort out her own life experiences.
Michael Wood's latest documentary film for PBS is called "Shangri-La." Wood tells Jim Fleming about his journey through the Himalayas.
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