Who's the real Barack Obama? Biographer David Maraniss traveled around the world searching for answers. He says Obama's life is surrounded in mythology.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Charles Monroe-Kane is tired of hearing Baby Boomers wax nostalgic and he tells us why.
Deborah Madison talks with Anne Strainchamps about shopping at farmer’s markets. She says slowing down for food is one of the best ways to bring pleasure back into your life.
What's the oddest - or most delicious - translation of traditional food that you've sampled?
LA Times food critic Jonathan Gold has spent his career seeking out the best plates of authentic – or reinterpreted – culture. Anne Strainchamps asked him about food in translation.
Listen to the UNCUT interview here. We recommend having some snacks on hand!
Avital Ronell has been called “the foremost thinker of the repressed conditions of knowledge.” She gives Jim Fleming an inspired take on stupidity.
Brian Turner was an average young American who volunteered for military service in Iraq. At night he wrote poetry by flashlight.
Daniel Levitin reacts to a musical example Anne Strainchamps provides and talks about music and children's brains.
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