Rob Brezsny is a poet, musician, astrologer and the author of “Pronoia Is the Antidote to Paranoia.” He tells Anne Strainchamps that pronoia sees the world as fundamentally friendly...
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Who was the real Henry David Thoreau? He wasn't exaclty an environmentalist, and "Walden" didn't simply describe his time living by the pond. Jeffrey Cramer looks at the man behind the myth.
When President Obama took office, the Democratic Party was riding high, and the Republican Party, some thought, was on its way out. No one paid much attention to the Tea Party. Times have changed.
Have you been to the High Line yet? It’s one of Manhattan's newest parks. In the summer, it's full of sunbathers, lush plantings and strolling locals. It’s also about 30 feet above the ground, built on the bed of an old elevated train line. Writer Annik LaFarge talks about the park, five years into its reinvention.
Robert Wright tells Steve Paulson that the history of monotheism was shaped by the political events of the turbulent ancient Middle East and that Jesus was not a prophet of peace but a typical Jewish apocalyptic preacher obsessed with the approaching End Times.
Maggie Nelson talks to Steve Paulson about her new book, "The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning."
Jon Hein uses the term “jump-the-shark” to describe the precise moment when things begin to go bad.
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