Rosanne Cash is the daughter of country music legend Johnny Cash, but she's forged her own very successful career in music.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Political science professor Wendy Brown believes tolerance should never be considered a substitute for equality, and says doing so could mask historical injustices.
William Least Heat-Moon created a sensation with his book "Blue Highways." He's back now with "Roads to Quoz," about traveling along America's back roads. Moon talks with Anne Strainchamps about the trips that inspired the new book.
Steve Paulson reports on the state of Chinese literature today. He talks with Annie Wang, Nobel Prize Laureate Gao Xingjian and National Book Award winner Ha Jin.
Few Latin American novelists are as beloved across the globe as Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Here’s Steve Paulson’s 2006 interview with translator Edith Grossman, who’s done more than anyone to bring Garcia Marquez to the English reading world.
For centuries religions set moral boundaries. In his new book “The Moral Landscape” prominent atheist Sam Harris argues that science should set them.
Scott Westerfeld writes wildly popular post-apocalyptic and dystopian science fiction for teenagers. He's the author of the "Peeps" series about parasite-positive vampires, as well as "Uglies" and "Pretties," who live in a world where plastic surgery is compulsory.
When is government surveillance appropriate? Shane Harris talks about the rise of American surveillance, cyber warfare and privacy.
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