Andrew Hurley’s book is “Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American Dream in Postwar Consumer Culture.” Hurley talks about the history of the diner.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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It was a snowy day. Susan B. Anthony invited Frederick Douglass to tea. Author Dean Robbins reads from "Two Friends," his new picture for kids.
Is this... a date?
Should I ..? Are we going to..?
A story from Marilyn Pittman.
Adrian Wooldridge tells Jim Fleming that unexpectedly, religious faith has not only survived into the modern era, it's thriving.
Amy Vedder and Bill Weber founded the Mountain Gorilla Project in Rwanda some twenty five years ago. They explain how they envision eco-tourism preserving the gorilla habitat.
Wine journalist Alice Feiring opposes the dominant, market-driven, one palate fashion of the wine industry.
Don't ask Anna Dietrich if she invented a car that can fly. No one can do that she says. She did, however, invent a plane that can drive.
Much of what we think about Karl Marx is wrong, according to cultural critic Terry Eagleton. And he says Marx admired capitalism, though he was also its most trenchant critic.
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