Peter T. Kilborn talks about the "new rootless professional class" that consists of mid-level managers and executives who move every few years (sometimes enormous distances, or to foreign countries) to advance their careers.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Take a look at any portrayal of the Dark Ages and you might come away believing it was a gruesome and violent time, but is that historically true?
Frances Perkins was the woman behind the New Deal as she was sworn in as Secretary of Labor under Franklin Roosevelt.
Matthew Scully is a speech writer for President Bush and the author of “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering if Animals and the Call to Mercy.” Michael Pollan is a writer and the author of “The Botany of Desire.”
The press has been pumping out opinion pieces about selfies. One of the biggest debates is, what do they say about self-esteem? We turned to the psychologists…
Doug Worgul works for Joe's Kansas City Bar-B-Que in Olathe, Kansas. He's also a writer and the author of a barbecue novel called, "Thin Blue Smoke." He explains what makes Kansas City style barbecue different from other styles.
Lawrence Osborne tells Anne Strainchamps he set out to teach himself what a wine critic knows. He thinks he did, but isn’t sure we need critics at all.
Historian Michael Kammen tells Anne Strainchamps that the social distinctions between high-brow and low-brow culture are not as important as they once were.
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