Dennis Donovan is the national organizer for the Center for Democracy and Citizenship. He talks about his work with school children, teaching them how to get involved in the democratic process.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Darrin McMahon is the author of “Happiness: A History.” He tells Jim Fleming the Founding Fathers equated happiness with virtue...
"Gifts make slaves like whips make dogs" is an anthropologist's tale of inter-cultural difference in gift exchanges.
David Graeber takes us on a tour of gift giving, and gift economies. He also takes a swing at the question of whether it's possible to give a truly selfless gift.
James Dawes interviewed a collection of convicted war criminals from the Second Sino-Japanese War. Today, they are "sweet old men" searching for forgiveness. Do they deserve it?
Chuck Klosterman tells Steve Paulson why Phoenix Suns basketball player Steve Nash is associated with Marxism, and how he picks subjects to write about.
Sci-fi writer Eileen Gunn bookmarks Nisi Shawl's "Filter House."
Charles Limb is a surgeon and musician who researches the way creativity works in the brain. He puts jazz musicians inside an fMRI to find out what the brain does during musical improvisation.
Watch Charles Limb's TED Talk here
Missy Cummings studies unmanned systems like drones, as director of Duke University’s Humans and Autonomy Lab. Charles Monroe-Kane spoke with her about a few of the ways drones are being used outside of the military.
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