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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mark Moskowitz makes political ads. Moskowitz tells Steve Paulson about how political ads are made and about the art of the attack ad.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jonathan Haidt talks with Jim Fleming about an often-overlooked emotion - elevation.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Parker Palmer has a solution to the problems of today's politics and it’s right in the title of this book “Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Feeling lonely is a signal that we need to interact with others as fundamental to our well-being as signals like hunger and thirst.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Earlier this year, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet handed over the last of his political power, to a secular, Harvard-educated politician. Lobsang Sangay left his fellowship and family in the United States to take up his new post, and all of its challenges.

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Julia Alvarez tells Anne Strainchamps that she raises coffee on a small farm in the Dominican Republic and explains how it influences her writing.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Winter. I am getting sick of this winter. It’s hard to get around. I’m never outside. I hate scraping and shoveling. . . And, I’m cold. And most likely you are cold too.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paul Theroux lived and taught in Africa throughout much of the 1960s. He returned recently and describes the journey in his book “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town.”

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