Lucy Kaylin tells Steve Paulson that the average age of American nuns is seventy, and that many orders are folding.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Naomi Klein discusses how countries impose "disaster capitalism" on countries to get otherwise unpopular policies accepted.
Leslie Klinger tells Jim Fleming about the new edition of the "New Annotated Sherlock Holmes"
MiRi Park is the defending 2004 U.S. and World air guitar champion. She performs for us and tells Steve Paulson what made her the champ.
Nicholas Ostler talks to Jim Fleming about how languages spread and the similarities and differences between Chinese and English.
When John Schwartz’s son, Joseph, was born seventeen years ago, John and his wife were feeling pretty good about their parenting… helping their son Sam and their daughter Elizabeth through the challenges of childhood..
But as Joe grew into toddlerhood, the Schwartzs noticed that he was different… not like most of the other boys. They started to wonder if he might grow up to be gay. They also noticed how the social pressure to be a stereotypical boy weighed on Joe…
Novelist Peter Carey talks about the trip he describes in his book “Wrong about Japan: A Father’s Journey with His Son.” Carey took his then 12 year old son Charley to meet directors of Japanese anime films and creators of manga comics
Joe Queenan is an American married to an Englishwoman, and the author of “Queenan Country: A Reluctant Anglophile’s Pilgrimage to the Mother Country.”
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