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Best of 2016: Chuck Klosterman Thinks About the Present As If It Were the Past

Doug here. I thought there was good back-and-forth between Chuck and myself in this conversation. I like how the interview went “meta” at the end, with Chuck speculating that if I’m right about his book being hailed as the “Moby Dick" of non-fiction in 300 years time. This interview belongs in a time capsule.  At the very least, a “Best of” show. I also really enjoyed the fact that we heard the musical stylings of John Philip Sousa, Chuck Berry, KISS and Veruca Salt.  Of course, if Chuck’s book taught me anything (and it actually taught me many things), I could be wrong.

 

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DJ Spooky on "Sinfonia Antarctica"

Hip hop artist DJ Spooky brought a crew to Antarctica and created Sinfonia Antarctica. He tells us how his audio portrait documents the effects of climate change on the continent.

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Catherine Austin Fitts on Ethical Investing

Catherine Austin Fitts was the Federal Housing Commissioner and Assistant Secretary of Housing under the first Bush administration. She managed a Wall Street investment firm and is now president of Solari, Inc.

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Danny Gregory on Classroom Filmstrips

Danny Gregory tells Jim Fleming that film-strips became popular around the time of the second world war and were used for industrial training and in public schools.

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Deborah Gordon on Ant Colonies

Entomologist Deborah Gordon tells Steve Paulson that ant colonies run with no one in charge.  She’s spent years figuring out how they do it.

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BookMark - Gary Shteyngart on "Jernigan"

 Novelist Gary Shteyngart recommends one of his favorite reads:  "Jernigan" by David Gates.

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Dwight Reynolds on Religious Tolerance

Dwight Reynolds talks with Steve Paulson about the history of religious tolerance in Al-Andalus and how it was reflected in the music of Moorish Spain.

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Elizabeth George on "With No One As Witness"

Elizabeth George, author of the Inspector Lynley mysteries, talks about her new novel that tells the life story of the mixed race boy who's arrested for the fatal mugging of the Inspector's wife, which occurred in the previous novel in the series.

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