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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Perhaps one of the most obvious and important cultural divides in the United States is between the political right and left.

Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt talks with Steve Paulson about his research into the fundamental differences between Democrats and Republican, and how we might begin to speak across the gap.
 
To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Moustafa Bayoumi talks with Jim Fleming about how 9/11 caused him to feel like an outsider in his own country.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Parker Palmer has a solution to the problems of today's politics and it’s right in the title of this book “Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Historian John D’Emilio is the author of “Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin.”  D’Emilio says that Rustin was crucial to the civil rights movement but has been forgotten because he was gay

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Cosmologist Janna Levin tells Steve Paulson that the universe may be shaped like a soccer ball, but it must be finite.  On the other hand, there could be many universes.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Richard Dawkins is an eminent biologist at Oxford University and one of the world's most famous atheists.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Rivka Galchen finished her MD and MFA degrees. Now she's published her first novel, "Atmospheric Disturbances."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sometimes making music new is as simple as adding a few new elements. For ground-breaking jazz composer Maria Schneider, that meant adding words (and a few bird calls) to her work.

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