Comedian Lewis Black is an angry man. He talks with Jim Fleming about the fine line between playing angry and being angry.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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The way we think about happiness today is a thin, watery version of a deep and complex subject.
Why are we so obsessed with finding someone who completes us? What if we're already complete? That's what Michael Cobb wonders. In his book "Single" he argues that it's time to take the pressure off couples and look at other ways of living.
Michael Shermer tells Jim Fleming that skepticism means being open to new ideas but not assuming anything is true.
Travel writer Jeff Greenwald tells travel stories to Jim Fleming and explains why he thinks that since September 11th, it’s more important than even that people try to understand other lands.
Jim Fleming speaks with Khaled Hosseini, author of "The Kite Runner."
Vladimir Nabokov is not only a great literary figure. He was a world-class lepidopterist who named ten new species. Pyle tells Judith Strasser about Nabokov’s work with butterflies.
Sales of George Orwell’s 1984 went through the roof after the latest news about the NSA’s surveillance of Americans’ communications. What would defying state control look like these days? Writer and digital activist Cory Doctorow considered the question in his novel, “Little Brother.”
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