Matt Taibbi, conributing editor to Rolling Stone magazine, talks with Anne Strainchamps about political audacity, voter memory and the scandalous behavior of some defense contractors in Iraq.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Maryam Eskandari is a mosque architect and founder of MIIM Designs. She say most non-Muslims think designing a mosque is full of rules. But it’s not. She told Charles Monroe-Kane that the only rule is you have to point out the direction to Mecca. This is called the marabji.
John Stilgoe tells Jim Fleming that people would discover all sorts of new things if they would walk or ride a bicycle and leave the car at home.
Kathleen Parker believes that popular culture portrays men as incompetent fools and classrooms ignore material of interest to boys. She says intelligent women need someone else to talk to, much less to marry and raise children with, so it's in women's interest to fix this.
British writer and playwright Michael Frayn talks with Steve Paulson about “Headlong." The book is about the painter Brueghel and the mania afflicting art collectors.
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist - and undocumented immigrant -- Jose Antonio Vargas is in our Crossroads show this week. Want to hear the EXTENDED interview with him? Here it is...
Jim Cummings runs Earth Ear, an on-line catalogue of environmental sound-scapes. He talks about the new field of acoustic ecology.
Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet are the authors of “Killing the Buddha - A Heretic’s Bible” and run an on-line magazine called Killing the Buddha Dot Com.
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