The Reduced Shakespeare Company - Reed Martin, Austin Tichenor and Matthew Croke – perform the complete history of the United States with their customary brevity and humor.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Best-selling author Thomas Cahill is writing a series of books about ancient cultures that have shaped our world. He talks about about the various ancient Greek city-states and their artistic and political legacy.
Native American writer Sherman Alexie talks with Steve Paulson about his stories, the film “Smoke Signals,” and being Indian in America.
"There is nothing romantic about death," Christian Wiman says.
The poet and editor of Poetry Magazine has been battling blood cancer for years. In his most recent book of poems he breathes life into writing about mortality.
Stuart MacBride writes "Tartan Noir" - darkly funny crime thrillers set in Scotland. His new one is "Dying Light."
Tyler Gallagher is the 2005 All-American Soap Box Derby Super Stock World Champion. Jeff Iula is the Derby’s General Manager...
Anne Strainchamps asks Columbia College philosopher Stephen Asma what his colleagues make of the soul these days.
There's an entire sector of the economy run by people who are working diligently to get inside your head and harvest your attention? Does that creep you out? They're called the Attention Merchants. And their business model consists of attracting your attention and then reselling it for profit. They're ad-based TV channels, clickbait producers and the big social media producers. Law professor Tim Wu is the author of "The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads."
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