Columnist Maureen Dowd says that a lot of people still don’t understand that a columnist is supposed to have a point of view.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Kerry O. Burns talks with Judith Strasser and performs excerpts from his one-man show “Markings of the Soul.” The play tells the story of Kerry and his gay brother, Tim.
Linguist John McWhorter says all six thousand contemporary languages evolved from a single source and that there’s no such thing as a pure language.
Noam Chomsky may be America's most prominent radical intellectual. An outspoken critic of U.S. foreign policy, he says the mainstream media simply won't acknowledge his political perspective.
How close are we to electing a woman as president? Journalist Rebecca Traister says "next election close."
Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood talks with Steve Paulson about her dystopian science fiction book, “Oryx and Crake.”
Michael Keith recalls his nomadic life with his divorced, alcoholic father. He never had enough to eat, and got into trouble, but decided who he didn’t want to be.
Do you think the French ban on smoking in all public places is an encroachment on personal liberty that threatens French culture? Richard Klein sure thinks so.
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