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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jacques Berlinerblau says we still don't know how to talk intelligently about religion in public life.  That's why he wrote "How To Be Secular."  He tells us why "secular" doesn't mean "atheist."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Frank Ahearn is a former skip tracer, a Private Investigator who specializes in finding people who don’t want to be found. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Irene Pepperberg teaches animal cognition at Harvard and is an associate research professor at Brandeis. For thirty years, she worked with a remarkable grey parrot named Alex.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Isabel Swift heads Harlequin Enterprises’ editorial department which publishes 700 new romance novels a year.  She says romances are feminist fiction.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

James Maguire is the author of "American Bee." He tells Steve Paulson what sort of kid goes in for competitive spelling and what it takes to be a champion.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Name a problem and Washington seems unable to solve it. Poverty. Climate change. Unemployment. Immigration. Education. Enter the mayor.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jack Zipes tells Steve Paulson why he’s not a big fan of the Harry Potter Books, what great children’s literature should do, and how he fights with his daughter about her books and music.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The 18th century was not only the Age of Enlightenment. It was also the age when many cities conquered darkness by installing public lighting. Dartmouth historian Darrin McMahon says it's no accident that cities lit up at the same time as the Enlightenment values of rationality and progress flourished.

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