Margaret Weis tells Steve Paulson all about dragons, and about the dragon world she created for her books.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Historian Jim Cullen talks with Jim Fleming about the various versions of the American Dream: freedom, equality, upward mobility, home ownership and the good life.
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."
Acclaimed novelist Colson Whitehead got the magazine assignment of a lifetime: a week in Vegas, playing in the World Series of Poker. He tells Doug Gordon about high stakes poker and his own "anhedonia," his difficulty experiencing pleasure.
Michael Streissguth met Johnny Cash and talks with Jim Fleming about the man and his music and what prompted him to compile his book.
In Mark Salzman’s novel “Lying Awake,” a Carmelite nun learns that her religious raptures may be symptoms of epilepsy.
Captain John Dalby runs a company called Marine Risk Management that out-pirates the pirates and reclaims ships for their rightful owners.
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.
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