How do we prevent baby boomers from bankrupting Social Security? Satirist Christopher Buckley has an idea - get the boomers to commit voluntary suicide...for tax incentives.
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Journalist Ann Louise Bardach is the author of “Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana.”
From Mandeville, LA, listener Sophia Derbes sent us this ghost story, called "The Lake."
Alain de Botton tells Steve Paulson that we all worry about our place in the pecking order and our lifestyle choices reflect our anxieties.
Journalist Andrea Rock says that we still don’t know very much about what the mind’s up to when it’s dreaming although we’ve always had theories.
Neil Gaiman is famous for his mythic fiction - from old gods haunting American back roads to children raised by ghosts. He talks about how our lives are shaped and scarred by childhood experiences.
Adam Gussow talks with Steve Paulson about the Blues legend of going to the crossroads to sell your soul to the devil in exchange for expertise playing the Blues.
Israeli novelist Amos Oz tells Steve Paulson that his own life parallels the history of modern Israel and that his parents were intellectual European emigres.
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