Meir Shalev tells Jim Fleming that he thinks the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem reached at the conclusion of that war was a just one and that the parties should return to the 1948 agreement.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Paul Berman has written for The New Republic and the New York Times Magazine. His new book is “Terror and Liberalism.” He says that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq is the intellectual heir of traditional fascist movements
Lars Svendsen talks with Anne Strainchamps about boredom's long, long history. Or maybe it just seems that way.
Biologist Marc Bekoff talks with Jim Fleming about his years of research into animal emotions and behavior, from penguins and foxes to his dog, Jethro.
Kate Lebo is The Pie Poet. She runs a pastry academy and writer's studio called The Pie School, She's published poetry about pies and a pie cookbook.
Richard Holmes is fascinated by what he calls "The Age of Wonder." The subtitle of his book is "how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and the terror of science," and he tells Steve Paulson about how Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" came directly out of the scientific climate of the time.
Karen Wenborn tells Jim Fleming about Classical Comics which have published three versions of Shakespeare plays, pairing various versions of the texts with bright, action-packed, comic book style visuals.
There's a nagging question at major sporting events: Are the athletes cheating? Steroids, human growth hormones and blood doping techniques are extending the outer limits of performance, and athletes can use them if they want -- unless they're professionals or Olympic athletes. But is doping really a problem? Australian philosopher and bioethicist Julian Savulescu has a simple litmus test: What contribution is coming from the technology and what is coming from the athlete?
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