Alfred Russel Wallace is the co-discoverer of the theory of evolution through natural selection, even if Charles Darwin gets all the ink.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jim Crace's novel "The Pesthouse" takes place in America after an un-named eco-disaster has decimated the population and destroyed much of our hi-tech civilization.
Madeleine Albright tells Steve Paulson that being the first female Secretary of State was more of a problem within the U.S. than it ever was when she represented our interests abroad.
Michael Witzel is the author of “The American Diner.” He talks about the way Hollywood makes use of the diner.
John Updike is celebrated as a novelist but is also an essayist and art critic.
Parker Palmer has a solution to the problems of today's politics and it’s right in the title of this book “Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit.”
Perhaps one of the most obvious and important cultural divides in the United States is between the political right and left.
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt talks with Steve Paulson about his research into the fundamental differences between Democrats and Republican, and how we might begin to speak across the gap.
Historian John D’Emilio is the author of “Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin.” D’Emilio says that Rustin was crucial to the civil rights movement but has been forgotten because he was gay
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