Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer for The New Yorker and author of “The Tipping Point.” He talks about how successful marketing works and gives some examples.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Did you know nature is good for you? Richard Louv can cite studies that show crime rates go up in cities with less green space.
Philipp Blom tells Anne Strainchamps about some of history's great pack-rats, and what purposes their collections served.
Goshen college theologian Jo Ann Brant talks about interpreting the story of Lot’s wife, who gets turned into a pillar of salt.
Marjane Satrapi talks about the intimate lives of women in Iran and the conflicts created around the issue of sexuality by patriarchy and fundamentalist Islam.
When you think about the accomplishments of the Civil Rights Movement and the last 50 years, it's tempting to think we've become a post-racial society. But University of Pennsylvania professor John Jackson Jr. believes we're seeing a new type of racial divide, characterized by distrust and paranoia.
John MacGregor is an art historian with psychiatric training, and the author of “Henry Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal.”
Novelist Jonathan Coe tells Anne Strainchamps about the careeer of experimental novelist B.S. Johnson who tried to reinvent the novel with every book he wrote.
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