Ellen Ruppel Shell talks with Anne Strainchamps about the effects of our obsession with low prices.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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We tend not to talk about death much in North America. Maybe we just don’t have the words to contain something so visceral. Maybe images are a better way to explore or express our mortality, and our feelings about it.
In a recent body of work, photographer Sarah Sudhoff helps us take a close look at death. In the NEW and EXTENDED interview, Anne Strainchamps talks with Sarah Sudhoff about ‘At the Hour of Our Death’.
Irish poet Dennis O'Driscoll has eight books of poetry. The latest one is "New and Selected Poems."
Peter Edelman's Dangerous Idea? Putting people to work doing things we need done.
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."
Donovan Campbell commanded a platoon of Marines in Ramadi. He tells Steve Paulson that to understand the events of April 6, you have to know what went on the night before.
Dave Barry went on the campaign trail with some of the lesser known presidential candidates and describes some of the humiliation they encounter.
Legal scholar Cass Sunstein believes humans are innately irrational.
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