Feeling lonely is a signal that we need to interact with others as fundamental to our well-being as signals like hunger and thirst.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Historian Margaret MacMillan tells Jim Fleming how a lot of today’s troubles in the Middle East stem from the way the Versailles Treaty after the First World War carved up the Ottoman Empire with no consideration of the Arabs’ political aspirations.
Wired columnist and tech writer Clive Thompson unpacks his optimistic take on computer technology -- it's making us, and our kids, smarter.
Historian and philosopher of science Robert Richards tells Steve Paulson that Charles Darwin himself believed evolution marches inevitably toward greater complexity.
Parker Palmer has a solution to the problems of today's politics and it’s right in the title of this book “Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit.”
Perhaps one of the most obvious and important cultural divides in the United States is between the political right and left.
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt talks with Steve Paulson about his research into the fundamental differences between Democrats and Republican, and how we might begin to speak across the gap.
Katy Lederer is a poet who used to manage a hedge fund. Her latest book is "The Heaven-Sent Leaf." She reads from it and talks about her work with Anne Strainchamps.
Mark Robert Rank tells Steve Paulson that American society is structured to accept a certain amount of poverty but that other capitalist societies have chosen to do things differently.
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