Matt Haimovitz tells Steve Paulson why he plays music that goes so far beyond the standard repertoire, and why he plays it in bars and coffeehouses as well as concert halls.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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John Berendt tells Anne Strainchamps that Venice still feels like a stage set, and that Venetians still carry on in dramatic, even operatic ways.
Paul Krugman is one of America's most visible economists. He teaches at Princeton, has a column in the New York Times and won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics.
British TV Producer Peter Pomerantsev found he was out of his depth when he was invited to move to Moscow to develop a Russian version of the west's popular reality shows.
A Danish director talks about his latest movie which is as dark and brooding as Nordic Noir crime novels.
Michael Doucet is the founder of the pioneering, Grammy Award-winning Cajun band, BeauSoleil. He also has an extensive background in arts education.
Journalist Amanda Taub believes the political correctness backlash misses the point and glosses over real issues. In an article published in Vox.com, she argues that so-called political correctness is really about protecting and promoting marginalized voices.
Cosmology is on our minds, with the remarkable new discovery confirming the Big Bang. To get a better sense of what it all means – and how creation stories like the Big Bang have shaped our sense of ourselves – Steve Paulson turned to Adam Frank, an astrophysicist who writes for NPR’s science blog 13.7. He’s the author of the book “About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang.”
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