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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Children’s author Katherine Paterson tells Steve Paulson that too many people deny the emotional reality of childhood.  Her books are popular because she recognizes the fears children face.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jeanne Safer and Richard Brookhiser would seem like an unlikely couple. She's a lifelong liberal, while he's a senior editor for the conservative National Review, and yet the two have been happily married for more than 35 years. They shared the secrets of a lasting marriage across party lines.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Dr. Maden Kataria founded Laughter Clubs International – groups of people who meet to laugh aloud together.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Michael Dirda tells Anne Strainchamps that modern readers of Beowulf owe a great deal to J.R.R. Tolkien.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Naif Al-Mutawa is the Creator of "The 99," a comic book series featuring a group of superheroes, each of whom derives a power from one of the 99 attributes of Allah.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jim Carrier tells Jim Fleming about some of the historic sites of the Civil Right’s Movement and why they needed an outsider to publicize their locations.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nicholas Carr recommends John Edward Huth's 2013 book, "The Lost Art of Finding Our Way," about how to use the natural world to navigate. 

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