University of Wisconsin historian Florencia Mallon talks about Chilean singer Victor Jara - one of the thousands of Chileans rounded up during the coup and executed.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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The average American voter is NOT smarter than a 5th grader, doesn't understand basic political facts and should probably not be allowed to vote. Philosopher Jason Brennan makes the case for an epistocracy: the rule of the knowledgeable.
Naturalist and soundscape artist Bernie Krause talks about his book, "The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places."
In 2006, Barack Obama was the new darling of the Democratic Party and was considering a Presidential run in 2008.
John Waters talks about the playlist of hitchhiking songs that he imagined the characters in his best-case and worst-case scenarios would be listening to when he picked them up,
Catherine Wagner is the co-editor, (with Rebecca Wolff) of the anthology "Not for Mothers Only." She talks with Steve Paulson about aspects of mothering and reads several poems from the book.
Don Foster tells Anne Strainchamps how he uses computer-assisted textual analysis to prove or disprove authorship of literary texts.
Pianist Christopher O'Riley performs the classics but also covers the rock music of his own time.
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