What's on This Week

10.18.2015
(was 07.10.2016)
Privilege checking has become a mainstay of a certain kind of conversation about race or identity. One person reminds -- or accuses -- another of enjoying all kinds of unearned...
04.19.2015
(was 02.21.2016)
shame statue
Social media has brought us all closer together.  Sometimes that's a good thing.  But when it comes to online shaming, it's a bad thing.  People get humiliated on Twitter, savaged...
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On Our Minds

The Hippie Doctor
Larry Brilliant is a doctor, co-founder of the digital social network the Well, and he was the first executive director of Google.org. But back in the Sixties, he was a...
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Winner of the 2016 National Book Award
Colson Whitehead’s novel The Underground Railroad just won the 2016 National Book Award. Steve Paulson spoke with him about this powerful, sweeping epic. Hear an excerpt of...
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Jacqueline Woodson's 'Another Brooklyn'
This month the National Book Awards will announce this year’s winners. Among the finalists is Jacqueline Woodson’s novel “Another Brooklyn.” It’s her first adult novel in two...
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The News From Poems

Throughout the month of April, To the Best of Our Knowledge will celebrate poetry with original work by five leading American poets, written in response to current events.