Anne Strainchamps talks with Anne Fadiman about her book “Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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A.C. Grayling talks about the western Allies’ use of carpet bombing against civilian populations in both the European and Pacific theaters during WWII.
Allen St. John tells Jim Fleming about the Fox game coverage strategy that has made the broadcast so iconic and recalls some of the greatest televised moments of Superbowls past.
He tells Steve Paulson that the long tradition of rigorous investigation of the mind undertaken by Buddhism has a lot to teach Western science.
Andrew Keen is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. He's also the author of "The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture."
For two years, medical anthropologist Seth Holmes followed and worked alongside migrant farm laborers all along the west coast. As part of his research, he even snuck in to the U.S. from Mexico, all in order to find out what life is like for an agricultural worker.
Did we get Freud all wrong? Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips says, "Yes." In this NEW and UNCUT interview, he tells Steve Paulson that we should read Freud as a great literary writer – on par with Kafka and Dostoevsky - not as a scientist of the mind. Phillips says we’ve barely begun to appreciate Freud’s radical insights.
Quick lesson in plants: Don't eat it unless you're sure you know what it is.
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