Political science professor Wendy Brown believes tolerance should never be considered a substitute for equality, and says doing so could mask historical injustices.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" was the rare book that changed how we think. On its 50th anniversary, historian of science Tom Broman talks about Kuhn's legacy and we hear excerpts from Kuhn's book.
Steve Paulson reports on the state of Chinese literature today. He talks with Annie Wang, Nobel Prize Laureate Gao Xingjian and National Book Award winner Ha Jin.
Humorist Roy Blount Junior believes New Orleans is the cradle of American culture.
What are you making? In San Francisco, two radio producers are collecting stories in a project called “The Making Of...”
In 2008, Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout and photographer Nigel Brennan were kidnapped in Somalia, by Islamist insurgents. They were held hostage for 460 days. Escape became the focus of their being.
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When is government surveillance appropriate? Shane Harris talks about the rise of American surveillance, cyber warfare and privacy.
Tom Szaky tells Jim Fleming how his company turns candy wrappers and juice bottles into pencil cases and backpacks.
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