In "Humans, Aliens and Autism" Ian Hacking analyzes the use of the alien metaphor as applied to people with autism.
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Kurt Schwitters was a celebrated modern artist in Europe in the twenties and thirties but his career was cut short by the Nazis. Now, his tales have been translated and edited by Jack Zipes.
Is there any American holiday that's more about food? It's not for nothing that we've nicknamed Thanksgiving as "Turkey Day." In this producer's note Craig Eley talks about the politics of food and Thanksgiving.
Do you know how you want to be treated at the end of your life – or what matters most to a loved one? These aren’t the easiest conversations to begin. Luckily, there’s lots of help out there if you know where to look.
We might not have the perfect definition of the word “scoundrel” but we can certainly agree on one thing – Civil War General and US Congressman Daniel Sickles was the epitome of a scoundrel.
Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist says most neuroscientists have downplayed the differences between the left and right sides of the brain. In this EXTENDED interview, he says he thinks the left hemisphere has become so dominant in Western culture that we're losing the sense of what makes us human.
Jack Miles says maybe God became incarnate to repent for having thrown Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden, and that Christ initiated the Eucharist as a way for his followers to regain their immortality.
Steve Paulson talks with book critic James Wood about Dale Peck and the business of doing book reviews. James Wood is literary critic at The New Republic.
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