John McWhorter teaches linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley and is the author of “Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Journalist Michael Wolfe tells Jim Fleming why Islam - Wolfe’s chosen religion - is entirely compatible with American values.
Sometimes beginning again means leaving an old life behind.
For Michelle Kennedy and her three children, that led to living in their car.
In Laura Poitras's film "My Country, My Country" she shoots in cinema verite style and based her film on the actions of an Iranian physician and his family around the recent Iranian election.
Jonathan Lethem's new novel is "Chronic City." The book has been described as a cross between the famous borough-centric New Yorker cartoon and the darkest episode of "Seinfeld."
Jedediah Purdy is the author of “For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Today” and “Being America: Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World.”
Singer and pianist Marcia Ball talks about the various kinds of Blues and how they differ from what she usually plays.
Ned Rorem tells Jim Fleming that the world of classical music is all about money today and that performers seem to matter even more than the music.
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