Seeking Solace

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December 02, 2001

Comfort food’s selling like hotcakes.  People haven’t forgotten the importance of good nutrition, but these days we crave things that’ll make us feel better.  In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, seeking solace in a scary world.  Diane Ackerman talks about her garden, and sharing it with the neighborhood deer.  Gary Wills introduces us to St. Augustine, and we’ll check out the consolations of philosophy.

William Claassen on Monasteries

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Journalist William Claassen calls himself a nomadic pilgrim. He spent many years traveling to cloistered communities from various religious traditions around the world.

Alain de Botton on Philosophy

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Alain de Botton tells Steve Paulson how modern readers can derive comfort from philosophy, and sees no conflict between talking about serious ideas and entertaining the reader.

Garry Wills on St. Augustine

St. Augustine
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Historian Garry Wills tells Jim Fleming that despite his “Confessions,” Augustine was no libertine, and dealt with all the major theological problems of early Christianity.

Diane Ackerman on Her Garden

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Poet, essayist and naturalist Diane Ackerman tells Anne Strainchamps that she shares her garden with the local deer and raises hundreds of roses organically.

William Gass on Rilke and Roses

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Literary critic William Gass talks with Steve Paulson about the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and explicates a poem of Rilke’s about a bowl of roses.

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December 02, 2001
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William Claassen

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Alain de Botton

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Garry Wills

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Nature
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