Nick Lowe has been making music for 40 years, as a solo artist and with such bands as Rockpile and Little Village. Many critics say he's doing his best work now, at the age of 58.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Brian Palmer has been a staff writer at Fortune magazine, Beijing bureau chief for US News and World Report and a correspondent for CNN. He tells Anne Strainchamps that none of that prepared him for Iraq where he was embedded with the First Battalion/Second Marines.
Last summer's sleeper hit was a book by David Wroblewski called "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle." Wroblewski reads from his novel and talks with Jim Fleming about his life in Wisconsin as the child of a family who raised dogs.
Elisabeth Sifton is the daughter of theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, who wrote the famous “Serenity Prayer.” Sifton tells Steve Paulson about the history of the Serenity Prayer.
Nobel Laureate psychologist Daniel Kahneman talks to Steve Paulson about the two basic systems that drive the way we think. Kahneman is the author of "Thinking, Fast and Slow.'
Are humans hard-wired to forgive? Psychologist Michael McCullough's research traces the evolutionary roots of forgiveness and revenge.
Elaine Pagels won the National Book Award for her book on the Gnostic Gospels. Now she’s back with “Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas.”
Physicist Leonard Mlodinow and spiritual teacher Deepak Chopra debate their conflicting worldviews on science and the origins of consciousness.
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