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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Studs Terkel has come out with a new book at the age of 93. It's a collection of interviews with some of his favorite musicians.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Thomas Chatterton Williams is a young writer who grew up listening to hip hop, but lost touch with the culture upon entering college.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Salman Rushdie tells Steve Paulson about his very first memories of "The Wizard of Oz."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

As the daughter of a child psychologist, writer Jessica Lamb-Shapiro grew weary of the simple solutions offered by popular self-help books. So maybe it was only natural that she wanted to understand why people liked them so much. To find out, she read hundreds of books and articles, journeyed to conferences headed by self-improvement icons, and even conquered her fear of flying along the way.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Computer paswords are on on our minds this week.  "The New York Times" reporter Ian Urbina talks about his feature story, "The Secret Life of Passwords."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Historian Simon Schama tells Steve Paulson that Rembrandt thought art should tell the truth and that he was an enormously innovative painter.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Literary critic William Gass talks with Steve Paulson about the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and explicates a poem of Rilke’s about a bowl of roses.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Recently hundreds of Evangelical leaders met with Donald Trump.  One prominent Evangelical who did not attend is Michael Gerson, the former speechwriter and top aide to President George W. Bush. Gerson believes it's time to reframe the conservative agenda and he warns his fellow believers to beware “The Mark of Trump.”

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