Robert Orsi talks about the role of angels and saints in Catholicism pre-Vatican II and insists that people’s relationships with them are real, whether or not the spirits are.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Kathleen Morris talks about her experience with the mental habit monastics used to describe a kind of frantic escapism and aversion to other people. It's similar, but not identical, to the modern disease of depression.
Moshin Hamid shares many characteristics with the central character of his novel, "The Reluctant Fundamentalist."
Janet Davis tells Steve Paulson that controversy has surrounded the use of animals in the American circus since the 1890s.
When you think about something as specific as the Paleo Diet you kinda gotta ask yourself how someone today really knows what someone ate, say, 15,000 years ago. So we thought, why not ask an expert? Say an anthropologist who is an expert on the subject?
Journalist John Carlin talks with Steve Paulson about the 1995 rugby tournament that changed South Africa's history.
Richard Cohen fell in love with swordplay while at boarding school. He’s a sabre champion and the author of “By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers and Olympic Champions.”
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