Dalton Conley grew up in the housing projects of New York's lower East Side. But he went to school in a wealthy white neighborhood.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Barry Glassner tells Steve Paulson that Americans seem to think the value of a meal lies principally in what it lacks - no sugar, fat, carbs, calories, etc. He explores the myths that make us the food police.
Katha Pollitt's Dangerous Idea? Your child is not a special snowflake.
There are sad songs in rock, and sad songs in jazz, but the resting place for the saddest songs is clearly in country music.
Producer Sara Nics on the story behind this show... how she's tried to come to terms with our narrative selves.
Charles Dwyer on art with his homeless neighbor - Jerry Pfeil.
According to historian Thomas Laqueur, neither sanitation nor the soul fully explain the rang of rituals we've developed for caring for dead bodies. For him, there is a deeper anthropological truth at work: caring for the dead marks the human transition from nature into culture.
Elizabeth Little is a writer and editor who collects languages. She tells Jim Fleming about the perils of learning tonal languages.
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