Christopher Caldwell talks with Steve Paulson about the European discomfort with the rising tide of Muslim immigration.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Daniel Wolff tells Anne Strainchamps that most Americans learn what they really need to know outside of school and that, as a society, we believe contradictory things about the value of public education.
Deborah Madison talks with Anne Strainchamps about the growing popularity of farmers’ markets.
Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff's Dangerous Idea? Open source currency as the next money model.
Elizabeth Little is a writer and editor who collects languages. She tells Jim Fleming about the perils of learning tonal languages.
After all the debates about the Muslim world, it’s refreshing to look back at one of the world’s great mystics - the Sufi poet Rumi.
Betsy Israel tells Jim Fleming our society has always been suspicious of unmarried women and talks about examples from Louisa Mat Alcott to Ally McBeal.
Eugene Mirman is an indie comic and the author of an outlandish self-help send-up called "The Will to Whatevs." He tells Jim Fleming that school was horrible for him and gave rise to his nerd humor.
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