Liaquat Ahamed talks about the parallels between the recent financial meltdown and the events that led up to the Great Depression. Both situations involved bubbles, and errors by the Federal Reserve System.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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The massive protests in Ferguson, Missouri are on our minds this week. We explore the racial conflict and police violence with sociologist Alice Goffman.
Julie Norem is the author of “The Power of Negative Thinking.” She tells Jim Fleming about her strategy of “defensive pessimism,” and explains the good it can do.
John Alderman tells Steve Paulson that once young people figured out how to share music on the Internet, the floodgates were opened.
Psychologist Michael Thompson consults with school systems about how to communicate with boys.
Michael Dirda, the Pulitzer Prize winning senior editor of the Washington Post’s Bookworld has written a memoir called “An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland.”
Writer Peter Mayle tells Steve Paulson about growing French wine, and drinking rather a lot of it.
Depression can mean two things: a downturn in the economy and an illness of the psyche.
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