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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Donovan Campbell commanded a platoon of Marines in Ramadi. He tells Steve Paulson that to understand the events of April 6, you have to know what went on the night before.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The asexual movement calls into question everything you thought you knew about love and romance.  We talk with David Jay, founder of AVEN, the Asexuality Visibility and Education Network.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer Edmund White looks back over 50 years of gay love and liberation.  Although married, White has resisted what he calls “gay assimilation”.  He talks about the politics of gay sex and promiscuity.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

 Samuel Delany’s review of “Call me Ishmael” by Charles Olson.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

"Religion always starts with mysticism," says David Steindl-Rast. Now 89, he's been a Benedictine monk since 1953. Brother David was one of the first Roman Catholics to engage in dialogues between Christians and Buddhists. He tells Steve Paulson about the joys of life in the monastery.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Fred Pearce tells Steve Paulson he went to over 30 countries and discovered people are simply taking too much water out of the world's river systems.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Do physicists think about End Times? Noted string theorist Brian Greene does. He looks into the far future - billions of years from now - and sees a very dark universe.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Chuck Klosterman talks about "Through a Glass, Blindly," the essay about voyeurism in his book, "Eating the Dinosaur."

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