The distinctive voice of legendary talk-show host, Dick Cavett.
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David Harvey doesn't focus on subprime loans or lending. Instead he looks at the internal contradictions of capitalism itself.
Sheri Booker was terrified when she first started working at the Wylie Funeral Home at the age of 15. She was still grieving the death of a beloved aunt, and took the job in the hope of finding a sense of closure. After preparing her first client — a suicide victim with a gunshot wound to the head — something changed. As morbid as it may sound, she was hooked.
Cultural critic Cintra Wilson thinks American’s fascination with fame is a grotesque, crippling disease. She tears into it in her book “A Massive Swelling.”
Douglas Wolk tells Steve Paulson why comics became such a vital medium for individual artistic expression.
What’s it like to grow up with a great naturalist? Well, it made quite an impression on the children of famed conservationist Aldo Leopold.
Writer and activist Astra Taylor calls for a Jubilee to buy and abolish debt.
Fleda Brown, poet laureate of Delaware reads some of her poems and talks with Steve Paulson.
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