Kim Isaac Eisler talks with Jim Fleming about Indian casinos, admitting to the same ambivalence society feels. Casinos are fun, but they’re making too much money off their patrons.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Depression can mean two things: a downturn in the economy and an illness of the psyche.
Throughout the month of April, To the Best of Our Knowledge will celebrate poetry with a unique take on how we can use the form to process the world around us, and to establish a sense of place and identity in that world.
Writer Ayelet Waldman was struggling...with her marriage, her kids, her life.Then she took daily microdoses of LSD for a month and found a kind of beauty and calm she hadn’t known for years.
Liza Dalby is the first Western woman to become a geisha. Dalby tells Steve Paulson what being a geisha means and explains why modern women have trouble wearing kimonos.
Ruth Ozeki's novel, "A Tale for the Time Being," is just out in paperback. Anne Strainchamps talks to Ozeki about her book, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid) talks to Anne Strainchamps about his book, "Rhythm Science," and how the art of music sampling relates to plagiarism.
Peter T. Kilborn talks about the "new rootless professional class" that consists of mid-level managers and executives who move every few years (sometimes enormous distances, or to foreign countries) to advance their careers.
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