The nexus of science and religion has become a point of passion for interviewer Steve Paulson. In this segment, Steve looks back at TTBOOK's first interview with biologist E.O. Wilson.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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“We gon’ be alright.” That line from Kendrik Lamar hit song, “Alright” became the rallying cry, an anthem, for the Black Lives Matter movement.
Those lines are also the title of Jeff Chang’s new book. In it Chang gives us powerful and provocative essays on race, desegregation and hip-hop.
Rehman Tungekar sat down with Chang to talk about the important role that hip hop plays in creating lasting political change.
Native American writer Sherman Alexie talks with Steve Paulson about his stories, the film “Smoke Signals,” and being Indian in America.
Stephen Asma teaches philosophy at Columbia College in Chicago. He talks to Anne Strainchamps about his book "On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears."
Wild Forager Sam Thayer teaches classes on wild harvesting and says in his work, the first thing he has to deal with is fear.
Writer Suketu Mehta tells Jim Fleming about Bombay's archaic rent laws, the gang violence of the ‘90s and the sectarian riots and their aftermath.
Novelist T. Coraghessan Boyle talks with Jim Fleming about his latest. “Drop City” is set in a California commune in the 1970s, and concerns the activities at one of America’s many private little Utopias.
Woody Tasch is the author of "Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms and Fertility Mattered."
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