Noah Levine talks to Anne Strainchamps about the fusion of Buddhism and punk rock, dharma-punx.
Noah Levine talks to Anne Strainchamps about the fusion of Buddhism and punk rock, dharma-punx.
Psychologist Carl Jung and physicist Wolfgang Pauli had an extraordinary friendship, feeding off each other's interests in the occult and quantum physics. Arthur Miller has the story.
Lee Ernst has played John Barrymore several times in a play about the actor by William Luce.
Correction: This interview refers to a survey finding that only 22% of Americans trust government at all levels. The actual survey was limited to trust in the federal government, and found that 22% of Americans trusted the government in Washington "almost always or most of the time".
We all know it's important to be involved in local government, but can political participation also be fun? Josh Lerner thinks so. He believes local governments could boost the fun factor in the political process by borrowing a few ideas from game design.
Lorrie Moore responds to Hillary Clinton as a cultural symbol and public personality.
Jon Stewart gives Steve Paulson his take on the 2004 Presidential Election Campaign, and gives good reasons why people should vote for George Bush and for John Kerry.
Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the godfathers of Latin American fiction. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. He also once ran for president of his native country, Peru. Politics and literature are the driving forces in his life.
Pullman speaks with Steve Paulson about the fictional world he's created.