Anne Strainchamps talked with Anne Heller about her subject, Ayn Rand, the power of capitalism, and her appeal for young people.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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A.J. Jacobs tried to live Biblically for a year. He tells Jim Fleming he started by growing a beard, buying a stack of Bibles and before he knew it, he was confronting adulterers in the Park.
Do banks really have to rule the world? Not if we use alternative currencies. Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne say thousands of these different exchange systems already exist to meet people's real needs.
What would happen to our planet if all the human beings simply disappeared with all our junk? Basically, nature would waste no time taking over.
Find out what brain imaging technology can tell us about the experiences of Franciscan nuns and Pentecostalists at prayer.
Novelist Amy Tan takes on the comic misunderstandings that arise when Americans seek enlightenment in China in her new novel.
Alfred McCoy explains to Jim Fleming how the CIA made deals with warlords in Asia to help drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan during the Cold War.
Ann Marlowe describes her heroin habit in a memoir called “How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Z.”
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