Grace Tiffany’s new novel is called “Will.” She talks about the Will Shakespeare in her mind with Anne Strainchamps.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Scottish Parliament member George Galloway turned the tables on the senate subcommittee who accused him of profiting from the Iraq food-for-oil scandal.
Harvey Shapiro is the editor of a collection called “Poets of World War II.” He was a gunner himself during the war.
Gerard Jones tells Steve Paulson, a dad himself, that children need to be able to “destroy” the things that scare them.
Gary Rosen edited a book called “The Right War? The Conservative Debate on Iraq.” He describes the various lines of thought within the Conservative camp.
Henry the Eighth needed a "fixer" to make his break from the Church of Rome and his many marriages legal in England. That man was Thomas Cromwell.
Gus Russo tells Jim Fleming that organized crime has attempted to influence the presidential election on several occasions and finds it significant that Frank Sinatra acted as a gangster’s daughter’s prom date.
Wasn't the digital economy supposed to help all of us gain access to meaningful work? Computers would do the boring jobs while people did the stuff that matters. Instead, we've got workers replaced by robots and taxi drivers losing out to Uber. What went wrong? Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff has a word for it: growth.
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