Chuck Taggart talks about New Orleans’ rich musical history, and we hear many examples.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Frederic Spotts is the author of “Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics.” Spotts says that Hitler saw himself as a painter and was forever wounded by his failure to impress the artistic establishment.
Eric Kandel has spent a lifetime studying the science of memory and picked up a Nobel Prize while he was at it.
In Connie Willis' world, historians can actually go to the past to study.
Our final interview in today’s show has nothing to do with collecting – unless you consider winning two presidential campaigns a collection of two wins. David Axelrod was the chief strategist for Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns and recently stopped by our studio to talk about the art of running for office.
Mary Pauline Lowry has been obsessed with fire since she was a child. And she's pursued this obsession throughout her life -- by working as a member of a hotshot crew fighting wildland fires and writing a novel called "Wildfire" based on her experience.
Jon Ronson's Dangerous Idea -- Can Too Much Christmas Drive Kids to Kill?
<p>Novelist, actor, screenwriter and playwright Ayad Akhtar talks about growing up in a Pakistani-American household in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.</p>
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