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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Steve Paulson talks with Judith Jones, legendary editor at Knopf, about discovering French cooking herself and her long friendship and partnership with Julia Child.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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.
 
To The Best Of Our Knowledge

 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.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Historian Michael Oren talks with Steve Paulson about how the Barbary Pirates brought the Marines to the shores of Tripoli and why they went into the Middle East six times during the 19th century.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nicholas Gage tells Jim Fleming about the long love affair between Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Lars Svendsen talks with Anne Strainchamps about boredom's long, long history. Or maybe it just seems that way.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Jane Hamilton and her husband grow and sell apples on their farm in Wisconsin...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jean Auel is the author of the phenomenally successful “Earth’s Children” series of books.  Auel tells Anne Strainchamps about the extensive hands on research that informs her work.

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