A Danish director talks about his latest movie which is as dark and brooding as Nordic Noir crime novels.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Italian journalist Riccardo Orizio been interviewing disgraced exiled dictators for years. He put them together in a book called “Talk of the Devil.”
Quaker writer, educator and activist Parker Palmer believes people need to listen to their inner voice in order to make the right life choices.
Paul Stoller is an anthropologist who studied sorcery with the Songhay people in Niger. Years later he developed lymphoma and only then did he understand some of what his teacher had been trying to teach him.
TTBOOK host Jim Fleming responds to the documentary film “If a Tree Falls” that follows Daniel McGowan – a convicted terrorist… currently serving time. McGowan used arson as political protest with The Earth Liberation Front – a group the FBI considers America’s number one domestic terrorist threat.
Paleontologist Peter Ward tells Steve Paulson that big carnivores are unlikely to survive outside zoos but creatures that can survive around humans - like rats and coyotes - will thrive in the future.
Najla Said is many things: actress, playwright, author. She’s also a Palestinian-Lebanese-Christian-Arab-American who grew up on New York’s Jewish Upper West Side. And she’s the daughter of the late Edward Said –the famous Palestinian intellectual and activist.
Matthijs van Boxsel is the author of “The Encyclopedia of Stupidity.” He tells Steve Paulson it started with shame at his own stupidity, but he’s come finally to praise it.
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