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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Louise Brown tells Anne Strainchamps that the traditional culture of prostitution is related to the performing arts in Pakistan but that it is being replaced by a sex industry.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jim Carrier tells Jim Fleming about some of the historic sites of the Civil Right’s Movement and why they needed an outsider to publicize their locations.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Animal behaviorist Patricia McConnell is the author of "For the Love of a Dog" and the host of the public radio program "Calling All Pets."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mona Golabek is a concert pianist.  She tells Anne Strainchamps that her grandmother made loving music her parting gift to her daughter.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Kyle McCulloch is originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, but now writes for the TV show "South Park". He talks about an episode of the show which often makes fun of Canada.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Foreign policy analyst Robert Kagan tells Steve Paulson that Europeans and Americans have very different ideas about the value of military power. He says the Europeans’ reservations about invading Iraq are entirely legitimate.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Journalist John Conroy tells three tales of torture in his book “Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People.”  He describes them, and tells Steve Paulson that he believes that anyone is capable of inflicting torture, particularly when directed by a person in a position of authority.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Economist E. Glen Weyl has invented a market-driven voting system that he believes is much fairer and more democratic than one-vote-per-person majority rule.  It's called Quadratic Voting and it starts with giving everyone a bunch of tokens, or chips, along with a simple mathematical formula for voting.

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