Novelist and journalist William Vollmann has written a seven volume study of the moral calculus of violence. Vollmann talks with Steve Paulson about when violence is justified and when it isn’t.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Alena Graedon's debut novel is an intellectual thriller set in the near future. Print is dead, words have been monetized, and a "word flu" is running rampant. The book is called "The Word Exchange."
Harvard psychologist Shelley Carson explores new research on how to amplify creativity.
Scott Gelfand tells Jim Fleming about the latest in reproductive technology: the artificial womb. He worries that the device will be upon us before we’ve settled all the social and ethical issues it raises.
Terry Tempest Williams adores Thoreau. She says his passion for social justice and his love of nature are intimately connected.
Is hip hop strictly for the under-30 crowd? Todd Boyd tells Anne Strainchamps it’s a message of empowerment for Black Americans.
Charles R. Cross talks about Kurt Cobain's influence on hip-hop.
By now, it's almost commonplace to worry that the amount of time you spend on the Internet is actually rewiring your brain. But the first person to really put the issue on the cultural map was the writer Nicholas Carr -- in a book that's become a contemporary classic: "The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains."
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