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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ginger Strand, the author of The Brothers Vonnegut, has a dangerous idea. She thinks liberals need to go out and buy a gun!

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sales of George Orwell’s 1984 went through the roof after the latest news about the NSA’s surveillance of Americans’ communications. What would defying state control look like these days? Writer and digital activist Cory Doctorow considered the question in his novel, “Little Brother.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Richard Zacks, author of “The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd,” tells Jim Fleming that Kidd, was a privateer - a pirate hunter - not a pirate.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What do you do when your buddy in high school turns out to be the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paul Krugman is one of America's most visible economists. He teaches at Princeton, has a column in the New York Times and won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

"The Alphabet of Manliness" is politically incorrect, testosterone-laden and deliberately outrageous – an example of "fratire.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Alexander Weinstein’s “Children of the New World” is a collection of cautionary tales about extreme emotional attachment to software and silicon.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Naturalist and environmental activist Janisse Ray talks with Jim Fleming about her memoir, "Ecology of A Cracker Childhood." Ray now devotes herself to long leaf pine restoration.

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