What happens when you discover racial fear in yourself? Rachel Shadoan recently reached an uncomfortable conclusion: she was afraid of black men. Rachel was appalled and decided to do something about it. She tells her story in an article titled, "I am racist and so are you."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Feminist film critic Molly Haskell talks about how Hollywood has treated the subject of writer’s block, and we hear clips from “Adaptation” and “Barton Fink.”
Katharine Rogers tells Jim Fleming that there’s a lot more to Oz than the Wizard, and that Baum always loved the theater and would have been thrilled by the Judy Garland movie.
Julian Barnes' novel "The Sense of an Ending" won the 2011 Man Booker Prize. Barnes talks with Steve Paulson about the complications of memory, aging and moral reckoning.
Ralph Knowles is one of the godfathers of the modern "green" design movement. His ninth book on the subject is "Ritual House: Drawing on Nature's Rhythms."
Richard Sennett makes the case that our definition of craft should be expanded to include any job a person commits to executing to the best of their abilities.
Paul Hegarty is a lecturer in Philosophy and Visual Culture at University College Cork in Ireland. He's also really into Noise/Music and is the author of "Noise/Music: A History."
Peter Kornbluh, directs the National Security Archive’s Chile Documentation Project. He’s just published “The Pinochet File,” which uses recently declassified documents to prove that there was American involvement at the highest levels of government in the efforts to foment chaos in Chile.
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