Robert Bruggeman has a positive outlook on sprawl. He says societies have always grown and ours looks the way it does because suburbs represent the way Americans like to live.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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John Huss is the co-editor, with David Werther, of "Johnny Cash and Philosophy: The Burning Ring of Truth." In the book, 21 philosophers muse about the music of Johnny Cash.
Linda Lear tells Jim Fleming that the creator of Peter Rabbit could have been a scientist.
Martha Ackmann is the author of “The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight.” Ackman says that in 1960, female astronaut trainees were expected to fly in full make-up, Chanel suits and high heels.
<p>9/11 REMEMBERED: Philippe Petit spent years planning his illegal 1974 performance at the World Trade Center where he tight-rope walked between the Twin Towers. Petit looks back at the event and talks about what the destruction of the Towers meant for him.</p>
Jane Fonda tells Steve Paulson that she learned to hate her body while she was still a child and developed an eating disorder that continued for years.
Literary critics have deemed Laura van den Berg one of American's best new writers. Listen in as she talks about the roles of memory and forgetting in our lives, and in her debut novel, "Find Me."
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