Philosopher Judith Butler took a rigorous look at gender in her 1990 book, “Gender Trouble.” In this EXTENDED conversation, Steve asks her - with transexual and gender queer people more visible than ever - what can we say about the state of gender in North America?
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Rick Steves is the author of 30 European guidebooks, and host of public radio and television travel shows.
Nick Bostrom is a philosopher at Yale. In his paper “The Simulation Argument,” he makes the case that life as we know it may be a computer simulation being run by our descendants.
Lucy Kaylin tells Steve Paulson that the average age of American nuns is seventy, and that many orders are folding.
“The Onyx Project” is the world’s first fully browse-able, truly interactive movie.
Peggy Orenstein tells Anne Strainchamps about “parasite singles” - young Japanese, mostly female, who reject the traditional life of marriage and children.
With all that New York has to offer, Robert Sullivan chose to spend his time in a dark alley in Manhattan observing rats.
Leslie Klinger tells Jim Fleming about the new edition of the "New Annotated Sherlock Holmes"
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