Kathleen Parker believes that popular culture portrays men as incompetent fools and classrooms ignore material of interest to boys. She says intelligent women need someone else to talk to, much less to marry and raise children with, so it's in women's interest to fix this.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Matt Taibbi, conributing editor to Rolling Stone magazine, talks with Anne Strainchamps about political audacity, voter memory and the scandalous behavior of some defense contractors in Iraq.
You know poems can be different things to different people: solace, a call to action, beauty. A reflection on war. But to Rae Armantrout there’s one thing that all poetry should be - read out loud.
Like you, we were shocked this week to hear about the death of Robin Williams. . His softer side shines through in a conversation he had with fellow comedian Marc Maron, a few years ago, on Maron’s WTF podcast.
Here is a link to Marc Maron's full conversation with Robin Williams.
Here is a link to our full conversation with Marc Moran about healing and comedy.
Jim Cummings runs Earth Ear, an on-line catalogue of environmental sound-scapes. He talks about the new field of acoustic ecology.
British writer and playwright Michael Frayn talks with Steve Paulson about “Headlong." The book is about the painter Brueghel and the mania afflicting art collectors.
Black, white and Jewish: Rebecca Walker talks with Steve Paulson about her unconventional upbringing and how having a child of her own changed her feelings about it.
John Eisner and Daphne Greaves tell Steve Paulson that the Lark is a “research and development” theater company, and explain how it helps writers.
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