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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Lee Harris responds to the question "is there really a clash of civilizations?"

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TIME magazine reporter Josh Tyrangiel talks with Anne Strainchamps about Bono's long-term commitment to providing assistance to Africa.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin is obsessed with lost masterpieces of early cinema. He tells Steve Paulson he feels haunted - by the ghosts of early film history, and by the ghosts of his own family's past.

You can also hear our extended interview with Maddin.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jason Roberts tells Anne Strainchamps about James Holman, who traveled all over the world in the nineteenth century and wrote travel books, despite being blind.

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Patricia Volk recalls growing up in a New York restaurant family.  She describes the cuisine at the family’s eateries, and what they ate at home.

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Rachel Boynton's film, "Our Brand is Crisis" follows the efforts of an American political consulting firm which became involved in the Bolivian presidential election.

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Karen Armstrong is a historian of religion. Her latest book is "The Case for God."

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Martha Ackmann is the author of “The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight.” Ackman says that in 1960, female astronaut trainees were expected to fly in full make-up, Chanel suits and high heels.

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