Novelist Jane Hamilton and her husband grow and sell apples on their farm in Wisconsin...
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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What did FDR understand about democracy that our current political leaders – on both sides of the aisle – have forgotten.
Neil Gaiman is among the most celebrated writers of the fantastic. He's a transplant to the Midwest who discovered the House on the Rock in Spring Green, WI...
Steven Pollock, a legendary figure in the psychedelic underground, was murdered in 1981. Journalist Hamilton Morris investigates this unsolved murder and uncovers the largely forgotten story of Pollock, a brilliant - if renegade - scientist.
Here's Morris' article from Harpers, "Blood Spore"
One year ago 20 children and six school staff members were fatally shot in Newtown, Connecticut. In our hour on the wisdom of children this week, Muadh Bhavnagarwala and Jason Graves share their story of taking part in the memorial that followed the shootings. Listen in.
Kamran Nazeer tells Anne Strainchamps about his own autism and about some of the other autistic children he went to school with and what happened to them.
Noah Levine tells Anne Strainchamps how he’s combined the spiritual traditions of Buddhism with punk rock in his own life.
The film "The Dhamma Brothers" tells the story of a program which brought several Buddhist teachers to maximum security Donaldson Correctional Facility in Alabama to train a group of inmates in Vapassana meditation.
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