Ellen Ruppel Shell talks with Anne Strainchamps about the effects of our obsession with low prices.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Dave Barry went on the campaign trail with some of the lesser known presidential candidates and describes some of the humiliation they encounter.
What does it mean to be free? And what does it mean to live a personally authentic, honest life with ourselves and with others? These are the questions that Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their existential friends wrestled with in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Sarah Bakewell makes the case that their late-night conversations are especially relevant today. She's the author of "At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails."
Barry Unsworth says that the layers of history are tangible on Crete, and talks about some of the island’s mythic figures.
From one of Israel's leading novelists, a gorgeous and searing story about war and grief.
He sounded the alarm about global warming over 20 years ago. Now he has a model of how to survive on our changed planet.
Chuck Klosterman talks about "Through a Glass, Blindly," the essay about voyeurism in his book, "Eating the Dinosaur."
Fred Pearce tells Steve Paulson he went to over 30 countries and discovered people are simply taking too much water out of the world's river systems.
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