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CURRENT EVENTS
Anthony Shadid on War UNCUT
David Wolman on "The End of Money"
Paul Glover om Ithaca Hours
David Graeber on "Debt: The First 5,000 Years"
James Orbinski on his Time with Doctors Without Borders
Christopher Hitchens on "Hitch 22"
Noam Chomsky on Speaking Out
James Der Derian on Academics at War
Ralph Nader on Selling Out
Rep. Joe Walsh (R. IL) on Compromise
Data Mining for True Trends?
Building a "Trendy" Time Machine
The Future Business
Looking Back at Futurecasting
The Business of Predicting the Future
Heinz Insu Fenkl on North Korean Comics
Michael Lewis on the Global Recession
Juliet Schor on Plenitude
Occupy Wall Street vox
Jacob Hacker on Income Inequality
Dean Bakopoulos on American Unhappiness
HISTORY
Ralph Nader on Selling Out
Looking Back at Futurecasting
Looking Back at the Future
Sacred Pain with Ariel Glucklich
Pain Wars
Michael Lewis on the Global Recession
Anna Rabinowitz on "Darkling"
Steven Pinker on "The Better Angels of Our Nature"
Karl Marlantes on "What it is Like to Go to War"
Penny Von Eschen on the Jazz Ambassadors
David Graeber on the "Free Gift"
Tom Hayden on democracy
The Late Vaclav Havel on Art and Politics
What It Is Like To Go To War
Thomas Friedman on How the US Fell Behind
Stephen Batchelor on Rethinking Buddhism
John D'Emilio on The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
Susan J. Matt on "Homesickness: An American History"
Holly Tucker on "Blood Work"
Ron Rosenbaum on Nuclear War
Harvey Sachs on "The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824"
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Anthony Shadid on War UNCUT
Stories of Us
John D'Agata and Jim Fingal on "The Lifespan of a Fact"
William Gibson on "Distrust That Particular Flavor"
Cathy Davidson on How the Brain Science of Attention Will Change Our Lives
Cathy Davidson on How the Brain Science of Attention Will Change Our Lives
Noam Chomsky on Speaking Out
Cathy Davidson on How the Brain Science of Attention Will Change Our Lives
Ralph Nader on Selling Out
Butch Vig on Music Industry Trends
Data Mining for True Trends?
Building a "Trendy" Time Machine
Looking Back at the Future
Michael Lewis on the Global Recession
Occupy Wall Street vox
Jonathan Harris on Cowbird
Ward Cunningham on "The Wiki Way"
Keli Carender on the Tea Party
Marc Maron on His Hit Comedy Podcast WTF
Amir on "Zahra's Paradise"
Cornel West and Tavis Smiley on Democracy
PHILOSOPHY
This Will Make You Smarter
You & Your Brain
Contemplating Our Selves
Narrative Identity 101
Stories of Us
Forget Your Self
Gangaji on the True Self
John D'Agata and Jim Fingal on "The Lifespan of a Fact"
Joan Didion on "Blue Nights"
Mark Boyle on “The Money-less Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living.”
Danielle Ofri on Suicide and Medicine
Andrew Weil: A Doctor's Recipe for Happiness
Susan Ehrlich: When the Patient is Your Father
Astra Taylor's "Examined Life"
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen on "American Nietzsche"
James Der Derian on Academics at War
Christopher Hitchens on "Hitch 22"
Ralph Nader on Selling Out
The Other F Word
Jeffrey J. Kripal on "Mutants and Mystics"
Jonathan Lethem on "The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick"
POLITICS
David Graeber on "Debt: The First 5,000 Years"
Noam Chomsky on Speaking Out
Christopher Hitchens on "Hitch 22"
Ralph Nader on Selling Out
Rep. Joe Walsh (R. IL) on Compromise
Shepard Fairey - from Obey to Hope
Heinz Insu Fenkl on North Korean Comics
Juliet Schor on Plenitude
Jacob Hacker on Income Inequality
Anthony Shadid - After the Violence in Iraq
Ilan Stavans on A Memoir of Language
Parker Palmer on the Heart of Democracy
Riccardo Orizio on Former Dictators
Penny Von Eschen on the Jazz Ambassadors
David Graeber on the "Free Gift"
Tracy Gary on Philanthropy
Ralph Nader on How Billionaires Could Fix the Country
Tom Hayden on democracy
Christie Taylor Reports on the Wisconsin Protests
V.S. Naipaul on Colonialism
Mario Vargas Llosa on the dictator Trujillo
RELIGION
Contemplating Our Selves
Gangaji on the True Self
Forget Your Self
Guy Consolmagno on Theology and Astronomy
Stars in Heaven?
Ayad Akhtar on American Dervish
Zorba Paster on Buddhism and Medicine
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen on "American Nietzsche"
Jeremy Narby on "The Cosmic Serpent"
James Moore on Alfred Russel Wallace
Looking Back at the Future
Sacred Pain with Ariel Glucklich
Gary Spencer Millidge on Alan Moore
Karl Marlantes on "What it is Like to Go to War"
Ilan Stavans on A Memoir of Language
Salman Amhad on Pakistani Rock and Roll and Democracy
Azar Nafizi on "Reading Lolita in Tehran"
Mamek Khadem on Songs of the Revolution
Clifford Pickover on Physics and God
V.S. Naipaul on Colonialism
Gary Snyder on "The Practice of the Wild"
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