Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy has written another incendiary book: "Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Novelist Jonathan Lethem talks about the work of Philip K. Dick. Dick is one of Lethem's literary heroes.
Kathleen Dean Moore is a philosopher at Oregon State University, but her passion is an inhospitable island off the coast of Alaska. On Pine Island you can expect rain, fog, desolation, and a world of beauty that comes from the reality of natural surroundings.
Feeling lonely is a signal that we need to interact with others as fundamental to our well-being as signals like hunger and thirst.
Matt Hern thinks public education should be available to everyone, but not compulsory.
Is there a better way to think about money? Bernard Lietaer thinks so. One of the designers of the Euro, he’s now talking up the virtues of alternative currencies. In this EXTENDED interview, Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne tell us why complementary currencies are now flourishing around the world – and how they could help us dodge the next recession.
Rich Cohen tells Jim Fleming about his charismatic friend Drew, and their forays into a more complex and sophisticated world.
Historian Margaret MacMillan tells Jim Fleming how a lot of today’s troubles in the Middle East stem from the way the Versailles Treaty after the First World War carved up the Ottoman Empire with no consideration of the Arabs’ political aspirations.
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