Philosopher Colin McGinn talks about mental manipulation.
Award-winning radio producer David Freudberg talks with Anne Strainchamps about what narratives mean to people and how to construct a narrative.
Photographer David Plowden talks about why he loves bridges and why it was important to preserve them on film.
Researchers have discovered that cats have their own taste in music. It sounds nothing like that crap you listen to.
Karl Marx biographer Francis Wheen tells Steve Paulson his subject was a thoroughly bourgeois man who chose utter penury.
Music journalist Charles R. Cross shares one of his favorite forgotten albums from The Sonics.
Chris Gray is the author of “Cyborg Citizen.” He thinks anyone whose body has been artificially altered by technology is a cyborg. Forget bionic limbs, he means even people who’ve had vaccinations!
Take a quick trip through some classic songs of loneliness, from the Stanley Brothers, Roy Orbison and others, and we hear them all.