Austerity is a choice, and some question if it's a good one.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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John Callahan is a C5-6 quadriplegic. With only limited arm movement, he’s become a successful cartoonist. Callahan explains why he doesn’t shy away from outrageous cartoons.
Luke Rhinehart's novel, “The Dice Man", involves a psychiatrist who opens his life to new possibilities by basing his actions on a throw of the diced.
Jonathan Harris created the website wefeelfine.org. He tells Steve Paulson how it works, and we hear a montage of postings from the site.
Pierre Ferrari is one of the founders of TeamX, a clothing company with a social conscience. He tells Jim Fleming that the company limits executive salaries to eight times the salary of the lowest paid worker.
The evidence is mounting... "we" are mostly who we think we are. Our identities are mental constructs, cobbled together from memory and stories. Jonathan Adler gives us a crash course in narrative identity and mental health.
Julia Alvarez talks about her novel for young adults, and how it mirrors her own experience reconciling a native Dominican background with the culture of her adopted home: a small town in rural Vermont.
Travel writer Tony Perrotet has spent his career traveling all over the globe, but he skipped the Mediterranean tour, choosing Tierra del Fuego or the Amazon over Rome. But the discovery of an ancient guide book launched him on his most exotic journey yet, in the footsteps of the Ancients.
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