You can trace the history of the 1960's through its iconic music festivals: Newport '65, Monterey '67, Denver '69, Woodstock, and Altamont. Historian Craig Werner was there and says those festivals changed a lot more than American music.
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Steven Kotler spurned religion until he came down with Lyme Disease and spent three years on the couch. Then a friend took him surfing and he began to get better. Surfing became his religion.
Steve Earle has been Nashville’s bad boy for years. He talks about his controversial new album, “Jerusalem,” and his opposition to war in Iraq.
Rosanne Cash is the daughter of country music legend Johnny Cash, but she's forged her own very successful career in music.
Susan Morrison responds to Hilary Clinton as a cultural symbol and public personality.
Temple Grandin worries about pets in our modern society; critiques Cesar Millan's techniques as being appropriate only for large unrelated packs of dogs; and opposes the breeding of so-called criminal dogs.
For centuries religions set moral boundaries. In his new book “The Moral Landscape” prominent atheist Sam Harris argues that science should set them.
Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer talks about his book, "The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine and Modern American Life."
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