Justine Picardie is a writer for British Vogue and a former editor at London’s Observer. She talks about her efforts to contact her sister Ruth’s spirit in the year after Ruth’s death from breast cancer.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Douglas Rushkoff talks about his book, "Life Inc: How Corporatism Conquered the World, and How We Can Take It Back."
Robert Wright tells Steve Paulson that the history of monotheism was shaped by the political events of the turbulent ancient Middle East and that Jesus was not a prophet of peace but a typical Jewish apocalyptic preacher obsessed with the approaching End Times.
Who was the real Henry David Thoreau? He wasn't exaclty an environmentalist, and "Walden" didn't simply describe his time living by the pond. Jeffrey Cramer looks at the man behind the myth.
Maurice Sendak has written and narrates a story called "Pincus and the Pig: A Klezmer Tale." It's based on Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf".
When President Obama took office, the Democratic Party was riding high, and the Republican Party, some thought, was on its way out. No one paid much attention to the Tea Party. Times have changed.
Where does obsessive collecting come from? And what does it mean? Lorraine Daston takes us back to 17th century Europe and the nobility’s Kunstkamera, or chambers of wonders. They were filled with nature’s freaks and anomalies. But these marvels, these monsters, gave birth to modern science.
Maggie Nelson talks to Steve Paulson about her new book, "The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning."
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