Karen Armstrong is the author of nearly 20 books on religion. She tells Steve Paulson that traditions from Confucianism to Judaism emerged as responses to the rampant violence of their time. And she says our own time has a lot in common with that age.
Azby Brown talks with Jim Fleming about the Japanese ideal of the very small house – sometimes 500 square feet for a family of four.
Daniel Tammet may be the most remarkable mind on the planet.
Literary theorist Terry Eagleton's Dangerous Idea? The humanities are dying.
E. Fuller Torrey is a research psychiatrist who believes there has been a five fold increase in the incidence of insanity in the last 250 years, and that some infectious agent is to blame.
Brad Kessler was a writer in New York City. He's still a writer, but now he lives on 75 acres in Vermont with a small herd of goats.
Writer David Morris explains why "Solo Faces" by James Salter is one of his favorite books.
Coleman Barks has made it his life's work to translate the poetry of 13th century mystic and poet Rumi.
