Mitch Horowitz tells Anne Strainchamps that belief in the occult is as old as the colonies and that spiritualism was America's first great religious export.
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If your mind is nothing more than brain chemistry, do you have free will? Neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga says new brain science should change our thinking about this old philosophical question.
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Keith Miller is a novelist for whom libraries function as a muse.
Marilynne Robinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel “Gilead,” talks about the book with Steve Paulson.
Patricia Volk recalls growing up in a New York restaurant family. She describes the cuisine at the family’s eateries, and what they ate at home.
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.
What exactly happens in the brain when you “decide” to do something?
Renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt has just published a new book about the foundation for the Renaissance and the modern world.
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