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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mark Leyner talks to Jim Fleming about his mind-bending, synapse-shattering new novel, "The Sugar Frosted Nutsack."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Is mathematics what's most real in the universe?  MIT physicist Max Tegmark thinks so, and he says it's likely we live in one of many parallel universes.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jeanne Safer and Richard Brookhiser would seem like an unlikely couple. She's a lifelong liberal, while he's a senior editor for the conservative National Review, and yet the two have been happily married for more than 35 years. They shared the secrets of a lasting marriage across party lines.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Erik Prince was the founder and CEO of Blackwater, the controversial private military contractor. He's also been called a soldier for hire and a mercenary.  

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Civil rights historian Philip Dray discusses how the presence of TV cameras at the trial of the men who murdered Emmett Till changed the way the country viewed lynching.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Michael Dirda tells Anne Strainchamps that modern readers of Beowulf owe a great deal to J.R.R. Tolkien.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Neil Steinberg tells Jim Fleming, among other things, why AA seems to work, even when you intellectually reject its basic premises.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

We've got theme parks on the brain so we're revisiting Steve's conversation with Karen Russell re. her novel, "Swamplandia!," which is set in a gator wrestling theme park.

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