Katha Pollitt is a celebrated feminist writer and columnist for The Nation magazine. Her new book is "Learning to Drive."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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In “The Hunt for Zero Point” Nick Cook writes about the secret world of research into anti-gravity technology.
Nature writer Robert Finch gives Steve Paulson an insider's view of the ecosystem of the Cape Cod town of Wellfleet. They walk along the outskirts of Wellfleet, and visit shellfish growers Pat and Barbara Woodbury, who are raking for clams.
You can see photos from Cape Cod here.
"See them before they're gone" is the Lanza family's motto. Michael Lanza describes his quest to take his two young kids -- ages 7 and 9 -- to as many wilderness locations as possible, to see glaciers and icebergs and coral reefs, before climate change destroys them.
Feeling lonely is a signal that we need to interact with others as fundamental to our well-being as signals like hunger and thirst.
Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy has written another incendiary book: "Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal."
Rich Cohen tells Jim Fleming about his charismatic friend Drew, and their forays into a more complex and sophisticated world.
Wired columnist and tech writer Clive Thompson unpacks his optimistic take on computer technology -- it's making us, and our kids, smarter.
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