Glenn Kay talks to Jim Fleming about some of the 300 zombie films he has seen, rated, and reviewed.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Historian Harold Schechter tells Anne Strainchamps that violence has always been an important part of popular entertainment and our ancestors enjoyed truly grisly spectacles.
George Packer is a staff writer for the New Yorker and author of “The Assassins’ Gate.” He’s just back from his fifth trip to Iraq...
Greil Marcus tells Steve Paulson that self-invention has been a part of American nationhood since Puritan times.
Writer Gina Nahai grew up in Iran under the Shah and watched the growing strength of Islamic fundamentalism. Her latest novel is set in Tennessee, among a community of Appalachian Holy Rollers.
Psychiatrist Hans Breiter tells Steve Paulson that men’s brains may be hard-wired to appreciate female beauty and explains some of the science that makes him think so.
How does what you believe affect how you die? Watch as a historian, a psychologist and a sociologist talk about how people around the world confront their mortality.
George Dyson grew up in the backyard of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where some of the most brilliant engineers and mathematicians in the world (including his parents) were building one of the first computers. His new book, "Turing's Cathedral", is the story of their quest to build a working computer.
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