James Miller has written a fascinating book called “Examined Lives," a collection of short biographies of philosophers from Socrates to Nietzsche...
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Historian Ian Buruma tells Jim Fleming that economically China seems to be in better shape than Russia, but its situation is far more precarious in the long run.
Jake Tapper tells Anne Strainchamps about the importance of lies during wartime and gives several examples of strategic deceptions.
Prohibition gave us speakeasies, jazz clubs and bathtub gin. But a new revisionist history uncovers a more disturbing legacy: campaigns against immigrants, the War on Drugs,and the rise of America's "incarceration nation" . Historian Lisa McGirr's "War on Alcohol" traces the unintended consequences of America's experiment in collective, state-sponsored renunciation.
Part of what makes city life great is the creative people who live in - and shape - them.
Isabel Allende talks with Anne Strainchamps about "The Sum of Our Days." It's Allende's fourth memoir, and takes the form of a letter to her deceased daughter, Paula.
Maybe the Earth itself is alive. That’s the remarkable idea behind the Gaia hypothesis.
Marc Maron says he was washed up. Career? Over.
So he set up a microphone in his garage and starting talking with - and sometimes apologizing to - his fellow comedians.
That's when things started turning around.
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