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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Historian and president of Harvard University, Drew Gilpin Faust tells Steve Paulson that Civil War deaths consumed the entire nation with grief and transformed America in many ways.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Bryan Palmer tells Steve Paulson how some population groups, from enslaved Africans to religious heretics, jazz musicians, and homosexuals have found refuge and freedom in the night.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Acclaimed cartoonist Alison Bechdel has written two brutally honest memoirs about her parents. She tells Steve Paulson about her complicated relationship with her mother and how it inspired her as an artist.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In 2003, Craig Mullaney led an infantry rifle platoon along the hostile border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Errol Morris talks with Steve Paulson about Robert McNamera who is the subject of his latest film, “The Fog of War.” 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Cheryl Jarvis talks about “The Marriage Sabbatical”: it’s a time one spouse can pursue an individual dream, while maintaining a commitment to the marriage.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Author Chuck Klosterman's Dangerous Idea? Laugh tracks are the most philosophically stupid thing. Ever.

We've interviewed Klosterman a number of times, here's a link to more interviews with him.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

This is Charles. This interview was recorded near the end of the presidential race when everyone and their brother was trying to figure out what was happening in the minds of poor, white voters. I grew up in poverty under the shadows of Northeast Ohio steel mills. And it struck me that many of the insight everyone was looking for was right there in the music of where I grew up. In my opinion, the best example of that voice in 2016 was country music singer-songwriter Brandy Clark. Her album, "Big Day in a Small Town," had the answers, if anyone dared to listen.

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