Elizabeth Samet teaches literature to future Army officers at West Point. She tells Jim Fleming why her class reads Wilfred Owen and Homer, and what lessons they draw from the poetry.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Anthropologist Cynthia Mahmood is among the few Westerners who’s actually spent time talking with Islamic terrorists on their turf.
She is the child of fundamentalist Christians but her father was a forest ranger and she grew up in a remote wilderness cabin.
If you’ve ever seen a movie trailer you’ve heard the voice of Don LaFontaine. “The King of the Movie Trailer Voice-Overs” talks to Steve Paulson.
Getting words, quotes, even lines of verse inked under the skin is more common that you think. There’s even a name for it: Literary Tattoos
Cultural geographer Bradley Garrett's Dangerous Idea? Rediscover overlooked sites in cities.
Ed Young says that even basic literacy in Chinese requires memorizing 4,000 characters.
Bart Cheever is one of the founders of D.FILM - a touring Digital Film Festival. He says that digital photography makes it possible for anyone to make professional quality films
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