Journalist John Conroy tells three tales of torture in his book “Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People.” He describes them, and tells Steve Paulson that he believes that anyone is capable of inflicting torture, particularly when directed by a person in a position of authority.
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John Taliaferro is the author of “Great White Fathers: The Story of the Obsessive Quest to Create Mt. Rushmore.”
What’s daily life like for the U.S. president? Journalist Michael Lewis says it’s “an absurd job.” Lewis recently spent six months with President Obama. In this NEW and UNCUT interview, he talks with Steve Paulson about shadowing POTUS.
Laila Lalami tells Jim Fleming that Muslim women are trapped between two competing world views, neither of which knows how to help them or asks them what they want for themselves.
Martin Amis talks with Jim Fleming about his new novel, "House of Meetings" and the legacy of Stalin on Russia.
Joseph Kanon is the author of “The Good German.” It’s a novel about the American occupation of Berlin after WWII when American soldiers faced many of the same problems they’re seeing now in Iraq.
Mikita Brottman tells Anne Strainchamps about her own accident, the legends that grow up around celebrity car crashes, and the odd thrill we get from road wrecks.
The 12 people who died during the attack on the Charlie Hebdo office are on our minds this week. Most of the victims were cartoonists for the French satirical weekly. Its reporters and editor received death threats for the magazine’s depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. A hit-list published in an Al Qaeda magazine in 2013 also named the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. Steve Paulson talked with him a few years ago, while Westergaard was living in hiding in Denmark.
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