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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

We have a new Poet Laureate here in the U.S. Listen in as Natasha Trethewey talks about the history and memory embedded in her work.

You can hear more of Trethewey's poems here.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nicole-Anne Boyer is a strategic foresight specialist who helps clients come up with realistic projections of the future. She tells Steve Paulson that violent conflicts have actually dramatically decreased since the end of the Cold War...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Jim Crace believe current state of the world makes it all too easy to imagine a grim future.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Parker Palmer tells Jim Fleming why the soul still matters in an age of science.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jorge Drexler is the first person from Uruguay to win an Academy Award, for the song "Al Otro Lado del Rio," which is featured in the film, "The Motorcycle Diaries."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Historian John D'Emilio tells Jim Fleming that Bayard Rustin was crucial to the civil rights movement but has been forgotten because he was gay.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux tells Steve Paulson about the time he was held captive in Africa.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Roald Hoffmann won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, but he’s also a poet. He thinks the two disciplines have a lot in common, and reads a couple of poems.

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