Bob Alper is a rabbi; Ahmed Ahmed is an actor and comedian. The two comics decided to perform together making use of their ethnicity to make people laugh.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Criminologist Nils Christie's Dangerous Idea? Treat prisoners as people.
David Mamet talks with Steve Paulson and says the secret to writing a successful screenplay is to focus on what happens next. That's all the audience cares about.
Drew Gilpin Faust's latest book, This Republic of Suffering, explores one of the most sobering aspects of the Civil War: its colossal death toll.
In this UNCUT interview, novelist Deborah Harkness talks about studying the history of magic, and then transforming history into fiction.
Ever wonder why certain foods fall out of favor? In his book “The Gluten Lie” Alan Levinovitz argues that food has become akin to a modern religion for a lot of us, complete with its own set of rules, prohibitions and guiding beliefs.
Elizabeth Goodenough edited a book called “The Secret Spaces of Childhood.” Children’s author Zibby Oneal is one of the contributors to the book.
Christopher Moore talks with Steve Paulson about the world’s most untranslatable words.
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