Julie Norem is the author of “The Power of Negative Thinking.” She tells Jim Fleming about her strategy of “defensive pessimism,” and explains the good it can do.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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John Alderman tells Steve Paulson that once young people figured out how to share music on the Internet, the floodgates were opened.
Margaret Atwood says it's a mistake to think about debt as simply a matter of money. Debt is embedded in our psyche and rife in our literary and religious history.
Michael Dirda, the Pulitzer Prize winning senior editor of the Washington Post’s Bookworld has written a memoir called “An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland.”
Paul Krugman wrote an article called “For Richer” for the New York Times Magazine. He tells Steve Paulson that there is a widening chasm between the super rich and the rest of us.
The WPA built 650 thousand miles of highways and employed 8 and a half million people. We explore its legacy
Jeffrey Goldberg talks with Jim Fleming about the role of the "public Intellectual" in Israel, the coming demographic problem the country faces, and expresses some doubt about Israel's long-term viability as a Jewish democracy.
Mark Pendergrast tells Jim Fleming that mirrors were important in many ancient human cultures and recounts his experiences in a mirror maze.
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