Matthew Scully is a speech writer for President Bush and the author of “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering if Animals and the Call to Mercy.” Michael Pollan is a writer and the author of “The Botany of Desire.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Rob Richie is executive director of the Center for Voting and Democracy. He talks about how the system of instant run off voting works and why a lot of people, including John McCain and Howard Dean, think it’s a good idea.
Historian Michael Kammen tells Anne Strainchamps that the social distinctions between high-brow and low-brow culture are not as important as they once were.
Kaari Pitkin produces Radio Rookies, New York's Peabody Award winning radio project for teenagers. She and one of the Rookies, Jaimita Haskell, tell Jim Fleming about the project.
More than 30 million Americans live in small towns. And lots of us will drive through small towns on road trips this summer. Princeton sociologist Robert Wuthnow just completed the first comprehensive study in half a century of small-town living. Here's his conversation with Anne...
Neil McCormick believed he was going to be the world’s biggest rock star, but that’s what happened to his childhood friend, Bono.
Keli Goff tells Steve Paulson that today's young Black voters don't look at politics through the lens of the Civil Rights Movement.
Peggy Orenstein tells Anne Strainchamps about “parasite singles” - young Japanese, mostly female, who reject the traditional life of marriage and children.
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