John Spalding is a humor columnist for the on-line magazine Belief Net, and the author of “A Pilgrim’s Digress: My Perilous, Fumbling Quest for the Celestial City.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Paul Lussier is the author of “Last Refuge of Scoundrels,” a fictionalized re-telling of the American Revolution. He tells Steve Paulson some of the dirt he dug up on the Founding Fathers.
Steve Paulson talks with Jorgen Nielsen and Sam Cherribi about the influence of the growing numbers of Muslims who have immigrated to Europe.
Journalist Jean Zimmerman says that Americans are in the process of throwing away centuries of domestic skills and traditions.
Neda Ulaby, NPR reporter and cultural critic, talks with Jim Fleming about the film adaptation of Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy."
Matthew Klam talks about his experience with Ecstasy and reflects on the pharmaceutical industry’s influence on the cultural perception of drug use.
Best-selling novelist Jane Hamilton shares some of her favorite endings from modern literature with Steve Paulson.
Jill Fredston tells Jim Fleming how avalanches happen. She says it has everything to do with the terrain and the condition of the snowpack.
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