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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy has written another incendiary book: "Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal."

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

The Poetry Foundation's mandate is to support "a vigorous presence for poetry." In our digital age, that means getting poems onto our screens, big and small. Catherine Halley run the Foundation's digital programs. 

Also, you can hear more poems from Nikki Giovanni here!

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Rich Cohen tells Jim Fleming about his charismatic friend Drew, and their forays into a more complex and sophisticated world.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jane Yolen likes to re-invent the stories about King Arthur.  In her version, it’s Guinevere who first pulls the sword from the stone!

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Wired columnist and tech writer Clive Thompson unpacks his optimistic take on computer technology -- it's making us, and our kids, smarter. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Michael Witzel is the author of “The American Diner.”  He talks about the way Hollywood makes use of the diner.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is the author of more than a dozen books, most recently “The Pig Who Sang to the Moon.”  He says that farm animals have rich, complex emotional lives.

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