Social critic Bill McKibben says we’re rushing through a momentous doorway into a new age of human evolution
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Diana Athill was the editor of some of the most celebrated writers of our time, including John Updike, Simone de Beauvoir, and V.S. Naipaul.
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.
Carl Safina tells Jim Fleming about the leatherback turtle, which has been around for a hundred million years.
Thomas Hardy's biographer tells Steve Paulson how his wife's death transformed the rest of Hardy's life.
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