Najla Said is a Palestinian-Lebanese Christian Arab-American who grew up on New York’s Jewish Upper West Side. And she’s the daughter of the late Edward Said –the famous Palestinian intellectual and activist.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Simon Reynolds talks to Steve Paulson about his book, "Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past."
Roy Kaplan tells Steve Paulson what really happens to those people who hit the lottery.
In this dangerous idea, computational mastermind Stephen Wolfram wonders about the distant future of humanity, and what will happen when—not if!—humans achieve immortality.
Poet Stephen Mitchell talks with Jim Fleming about classic creation stories from several major religious traditions.
Sapphire performs several of her poems and tells Judith Strasser why she enjoys working in some very old poetic forms such as the villanelle.
Karl Marlantes served in the Marines in Vietnam, so he knows first hand what it means to go to war. He talks with Jim Fleming about what we get right in training our soldiers, and what we get wrong when they come home. This is an uncut version of the interview.
Thomas Moore is a psychologist and philosopher. He talks with Anne Strainchamps about the spiritual meaning of treasure hunting.
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