Katha Pollitt's Dangerous Idea? Your child is not a special snowflake.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Arturo Marcano tells Steve Paulson about the exploitative system of player development in Venezuela and the Dominican Republic that fuels the American major leagues.
David John is a chess Life Master. He went to college on a chess scholarship, but now makes his living as a professional poker player in Las Vegas.
If human beings are part neanderthal, Brian Fagan tells Jim Fleming the rest of us is something else - Cro-Magnon.
Canadian author and artist Douglas Coupland talks to Steve Paulson about his unconventional McLuhan biography, "Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work!"
After writer Olivia Laing relocated to New York from England, she quickly discovered how lonely you can feel in crowd. Still reeling after a breakup and struggling to adapt to a new country, she turned to artists like Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol, and David Wojnarowicz to better understand how you can still feel isolated in a city teeming with millions of people.
Dean Hamer says that human beings are hard-wired for belief and are genetically pre-disposed to reach beyond their own limitations.
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