Ayn Rand died in 1982 but she's going through a revival.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Novelist Abby Frucht talks with Judith Strasser about her latest - "Polly's Ghost." Polly, the narrator, is learning how to be a ghost.
Alex Kerr tells Jim Fleming that the administration of daily life in Japan is completely divorced from politics and that Japan spends some 40 percent of its budget on construction.
Hip hop artist and poet Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre has his own set of responses to being told to man up. Ten to be exact.
Novelist Amy Tan takes on the comic misunderstandings that arise when Americans seek enlightenment in China in her new novel.
Ann Marlowe describes her heroin habit in a memoir called “How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Z.”
In EXTENDED interview, Al Gore talks with Steve Paulson about his book “The Future,” why he believes the Internet is the most powerful tool ever created by humans, and why he’s hopeful about our capacity to deal with climate change.
The film “Buzkashi Boys” is a coming of age story set in Afghanistan’s national sport, Buzkashi. It's a game of horse polo played with a dead goat instead of a ball. Plus, a coda from novelist Khaled Hosseini.
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