Bob Alper is a rabbi; Ahmed Ahmed is an actor and comedian. The two comics decided to perform together making use of their ethnicity to make people laugh.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Craig Venter, who's come as close as anyone has to creating life in a test tube, tells Steve Paulson what drives him.
Drew Gilpin Faust's latest book, This Republic of Suffering, explores one of the most sobering aspects of the Civil War: its colossal death toll.
Cary Sudler returns to his ancestral home to apologize to the black members of his family for the injustice of slavery.
Literary theorist Terry Eagleton's Dangerous Idea? The humanities are dying.
Christopher Buckley talks with Steve Paulson about his novel "Boomsday," which posits a piece of runaway legislation providing tax incentives for Boomers who choose to commit suicide...sort of an updated "Modest Proposal."
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian novelist whose book "Half of A Yellow Sun" is set during the period of civil violence surrounding the creation of Biafra.
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