Philip Milano is the author of “Why Do White People Smell Like Dogs When They Come Out of the Rain?” and founder of the controversial Web site, Y-Forum.com. He tells Anne Strainchamps his goal is to increase understanding between the races.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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The 12 people who died during the attack on the Charlie Hebdo office are on our minds this week. Most of the victims were cartoonists for the French satirical weekly. Its reporters and editor received death threats for the magazine’s depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. A hit-list published in an Al Qaeda magazine in 2013 also named the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. Steve Paulson talked with him a few years ago, while Westergaard was living in hiding in Denmark.
Mark Anderson tells Steve Paulson that no single piece of evidence for Shakespeare's identity is conclusive, but all the funny coincidences "prove" his thesis.
Russian classical pianist Lera Auerbach discuses her lifelong fear of time with Jim Fleming.
Mikita Brottman tells Anne Strainchamps about her own accident, the legends that grow up around celebrity car crashes, and the odd thrill we get from road wrecks.
Want to sum up a parent’s job in one word? It might be “giving”. Here’s commentator Marion Winik on teaching her youngest child to be giving too.
Robert Laughlin tells Steve Paulson that physicists are an eccentric bunch. He should know.
Novelist Jane Smiley tells Jim Fleming Dickens had extraordinary energy and vitality, and by writing sympathetically about the poor and working class, he changed English literature forever.
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