Rabbi Arik Ascherman, executive director of Israel’s Rabbis for Human Rights, tells Jim Fleming his organization hopes to protect the rights of both Israelis and Palestinians.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie splits her time between the U.S. and her native Nigeria...
Washington Post reporter David Finkel was embedded with the soldiers of Battalion 2-16 for eight months in 2007 during the Surge in Iraq.
David Myers tells Jim Fleming humans are terrible at predicting what will make them happy and seem to be much more resilient than they give themselves credit for.
Primatologist Barbara J. King tells Steve Paulson about her belief that the rudimentary qualities of religion can be seen in the behavior of the great apes.
Debra Dickerson talks with Jim Fleming about how African Americans may use their blackness as a self-limiting excuse not to achieve. And she's sick of it.
Journalist Christopher Noxon tells Jim Fleming about “rejuveniles” - adults who cultivate aspects of their childhoods and have made “kid culture” fashionable.
Back in 1956, philosopher Colin Wilson wrote a best-selling book that popularized the concept we’ve been talking about – “The Outsider.” It’s a study of misfit artists and writers, like Kafka, van Gogh and Dostoevsky – it’s never been out of print, and is still considered the classic work on alienation, creativity and the modern psyche. Blair Lorimer from the “Starve the System” YouTube channel thinks everyone should read it.
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