Douglas Rushkoff is a well-known media critic and maker of documentaries.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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No one doubts memory is one of the things that shapes our sense of self, but is there a science of self?
David Liss talks about how different trials were in the 18th century, and explains that modern patterns of thinking were only beginning to take hold.
Novelist Elif Shafak talks with Jim Fleming about the controversial concept of insulting Turkishness and the death of newspaper editor Hrant Dink
Benjamin Yandell tells Jim Fleming about the colorful personalities of the mathematicians who tackled some of the toughest problems in their field.
You wouldn’t think the novel “Lolita” would go over big in an underground women’s book club in Tehran. But literature, like the people who read it, has a way of surprising you. Azar Nafizi is the author of the celebrated memoir “Reading Lolita in Tehran.”
Novelist Erin Morgenstern has written a dark fairy tale for adults. At the center of the novel is a magical circus.
Daniel Smith talks about his book, "Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety."
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