Margaret MacMillan explains the historical context of the Nixon trip to China and how it changed the course of history.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Richard Dawkins is an eminent biologist at Oxford University and one of the world's most famous atheists.
Joel Kotkin tells Anne Strainchamps how the power of e-commerce is changing where and how we live. He says that knowledge workers choose to live in nerdistans and valhallas.
Rivka Galchen finished her MD and MFA degrees. Now she's published her first novel, "Atmospheric Disturbances."
Earlier this year, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet handed over the last of his political power, to a secular, Harvard-educated politician. Lobsang Sangay left his fellowship and family in the United States to take up his new post, and all of its challenges.
Parker Palmer has a solution to the problems of today's politics and it’s right in the title of this book “Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit.”
Episcopal priest Matthew Fox tells Steve Paulson why the belief in Original Sin is destructive and leads to a culture of pessimism.
Robert W. Fuller says “rankism” is a form of discrimination based on the abuse of rank and that it runs rampant throughout our society.
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