Jim Fleming speaks with Khaled Hosseini, author of "The Kite Runner."
Jim Fleming speaks with Khaled Hosseini, author of "The Kite Runner."
Ginger Strand, the author of The Brothers Vonnegut, has a dangerous idea. She thinks liberals need to go out and buy a gun!
Robert Greenwald supports the Obama administration but thinks they're dead wrong about Afghanistan.
Poet Naomi Shihab Nye talks with Anne Strainchamps about the effects of the violence in Iraq and the Middle-East on the children who see it everyday.
Matthew Crawford is a philosopher and mechanic talks about why manual work matters.
Nicholas Shakespeare tells Steve Paulson that Chatwin was a man of mystery and paradox who was willing to toy with the strictly factual to preserve an emotional truth. We also hear travel writer Paul Theroux comment on Chatwin, a long-time friend.
British composer John Tavener tells Steve Paulson that he merely records the music that God created, and that he scorns music like Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony which celebrates humanity rather than the Divine.