Paul Greenberg tells Jim Fleming that Russians get under the skin of Americans, who often make promises they can’t fulfill to the Russians’ expectations.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Joel Hirschorn thinks urban sprawl is a terrible idea and tells Steve Paulson all the reasons why.
Nathan Radke explores various connections between Charlie Brown and existentialism.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich says that Colonial American women showed their patriotism by learning how to weave. Making homespun meant they weren’t buying English cloth.
What do you do when your buddy in high school turns out to be the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer?
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.”
A Danish director talks about his latest movie which is as dark and brooding as Nordic Noir crime novels.
Ginger Strand, the author of The Brothers Vonnegut, has a dangerous idea. She thinks liberals need to go out and buy a gun!
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