Charles Eisenstein's Dangerous Idea? Questioning our core beliefs can change our world.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Talking about race is fraught these days, so it took guts for Paul Beatty to write his novel "The Sellout." It's a satire about a young black man who winds up on trial at the Supreme Court. And along the way, he enslaves an old friend and re-segregates the local high school.
If you’ve ever seen a movie trailer you’ve heard the voice of Don LaFontaine. “The King of the Movie Trailer Voice-Overs” talks to Steve Paulson.
Pianist Christopher O'Riley agrees with Duke Ellington that there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. He has a thriving career playing both classical music and his own arrangements of Elliot Smith and Radiohead.
She is the child of fundamentalist Christians but her father was a forest ranger and she grew up in a remote wilderness cabin.
Philip K. Dick scholar David Gill talks about Hollywood's adaptations of Philip K. Dick's novels and short stories.
Elizabeth Samet teaches literature to future Army officers at West Point. She tells Jim Fleming why her class reads Wilfred Owen and Homer, and what lessons they draw from the poetry.
Ed Young says that even basic literacy in Chinese requires memorizing 4,000 characters.
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