Jan Edwards tells Steve Paulson why she thinks corporations have too many legal rights and don’t deserve their status as legal persons.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Stand-up comic Marc Maron compiled a one-man show based on his 1998 trip to Israel. The companion book is called "The Jerusalem Syndrome: My Life as a Reluctant Messiah." Maron tells Steve Paulson about the trip and performs excerpts from the show.
Mark Helprin reads from his new book, “The Pacific and Other Stories,” and talks with Jim Fleming about what really matters in life: courage, integrity, compassion.
Nick Bostrom is a philosopher at Yale. In his paper “The Simulation Argument,” he makes the case that life as we know it may be a computer simulation being run by our descendants.
Michael Shapiro, author of “The Last Good Season: Brooklyn, the Dodgers, and Their Final Pennant Race Together” tells Jim Fleming why baseball in Brooklyn was special.
Richard Reynolds tells Anne Strainchamps about his adventures as a guerrilla gardener, that is, someone who tends someone else's land for harvest.
Jay Parini talks with Jim Fleming about the power of poetry and how it especially empowers young people in troubled times.
Peter Hillary and Jamling Norgay are the sons of the first men to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. Both men are climbers and have made a documentary film called “Surviving Everest” for National Geographic which details their own expedition up the mountain.
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