Harvard University historian John Stauffer talks with Steve Paulson about whether or not Lincoln was a racist.
Harvard University historian John Stauffer talks with Steve Paulson about whether or not Lincoln was a racist.
For Robert Farris Thompson, the most beautiful, intimate and passionate of dances is Argentine tango.
How come many of the latest pop songs sound as if they could have been released decades ago? Music journalist Simon Reynolds tells Steve Paulson that our obsession with our immediate past could get in the way of future creativity.
Steven Connor says there's much more to ventriloquism than exchanging quips with a wooden dummy. He tells Anne Strainchamps that a lot of this history has to do with the disembodied voice.
Former Senator Bob Kerrey talks with Steve Paulson about one bloody night in Vietnam that has haunted him for decades.
Tariq Ramadan is a Swiss-born philosopher who travels throughout the Islamic world trying to build bridges between European Muslim and conservative clerics.
Susan Hirschmann is a legendary children's book editor and founder of Greenwillow Books.