Karen Armstrong is the author of nearly 20 books on religion. She tells Steve Paulson that traditions from Confucianism to Judaism emerged as responses to the rampant violence of their time. And she says our own time has a lot in common with that age.
Criminologist Nils Christie's Dangerous Idea? Treat prisoners as people.
Frans de Waal talks with Steve Paulson about the evidence demonstrating that animals have culture.
Do nations need states? Do ethnic, religious, and/or linguistic groups of people – do they, in this age of globalization, do they need to form a country with borders and an army and all that comes along with that? Do they need to be a state?
Elizabeth Goodenough edited a book called “The Secret Spaces of Childhood.” Children’s author Zibby Oneal is one of the contributors to the book.
Writer David Morris explains why "Solo Faces" by James Salter is one of his favorite books.
Ariel Levy tells Anne Strainchamps we are living in a Feminist’s nightmare.
Christopher Buckley talks with Steve Paulson about his novel "Boomsday," which posits a piece of runaway legislation providing tax incentives for Boomers who choose to commit suicide...sort of an updated "Modest Proposal."
