Ralph Nader's Dangerous Idea? Drafting the children and grandchildren of elected representatives.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Chris Turner is the author of “Planet Simpson: How A Carton Masterpiece Defined A Generation.”
Billie Whitelaw was Samuel Beckett’s favorite actress and appeared in his plays for over twenty years. She tells Steve Paulson she never understood the plays but thinks Beckett’s a genius.
Thomas Hardy's biographer tells Steve Paulson how his wife's death transformed the rest of Hardy's life.
David Kilcullen was a top military advisor to General Petraeus during the troop surge in Iraq. He tells Anne Strainchamps that most counter-insurgency efforts fail because foreign armies usually galvanize opposition from local people.
Brother Guy Consolmagno, author of “Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist,” talks wit Jim Fleming about the historic rift between science and religion.
Dean Sluyter is a film critic and meditation teacher who combined his interests to write "Cinema Nirvana: Enlightenment Lessons from the Movies."
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