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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Steve Brodner talks about what makes a good political cartoon.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The legendary German filmmaker Werner Herzog talks about his career, truth in documentaries, and his constant quest for "the ecstatic truth."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Tim Richardson tells Anne Strainchamps about his favorite candies from around the world.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ruth Gendler re-tells the story of "The Mountain That Loved A Bird" by Alice McLerran and Eric Carle. Gendler is an artist and the author of "Notes on the Need for Beauty."  She tells Anne Strainchamps that we need to learn to see the beauty in the world all around us.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

William Aylward is an archaeologist at the University of Wisconsin who’s done extensive field work at the site of Troy in modern day Turkey.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

One of the founders of queer theory says his childhood in the Pentecostal church laid the ground for his evolution as a gay man and literary scholar.  Michael Warner grew up around faith healing and speaking in tongues. He says it was an education in thinking beyond "normal". 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jesse Ball's new novel is called "How to Set a Fire and Why." The protagonist is a teenage girl who joins a secret Arson Club at her new school.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

A former Jain monk, Satish Kumar still follows Gandhi's principles of non-violence. He tells Jim Fleming why he thinks violence is an obsolete weapon.

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