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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mark Moskowitz makes political ads. Moskowitz tells Steve Paulson about how political ads are made and about the art of the attack ad.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Penny Von Eschen tells Steve Paulson about the State Department's use of jazz musicians as a weapon in the cold war to win hearts and minds in the Third World.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Kevin Kelly tells Jim Fleming that the sum total of our technology - what he calls “the technicum” - is taking on the properties of life itself.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer and cartoonist Lynda Barry is an outspoken left-wing intellectual with an urban sensibility who now lives off the grid in rural Wisconsin.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In this UNCUT conversation, Jonathan Lethem talks about "Dissident Gardens" and the many faces of a novelist. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Julian Barnes talks about “England, England.”  It’s his latest novel, in which all the tourist attractions of England (Stonehenge, the Tower of London, the Royal Family) are recreated in one theme park.

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Martin Gilbert is Winston's Churchill's biographer, and explains what made Churchill such a great leader during WWII.

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 Judith Claire MItchell's first novel  “The Last Day of the War” is set just after World War I, when Europe's peace brokers decided to ignore the Armenian massacres.  She talks about the painful legacy of that decision, 100 years later.

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