Historian Joseph Persico tells Jim Fleming that Roosevelt loved the thrilling, clandestine aspects of espionage, and had to learn to appreciate the advantages of electronic spying.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Loren Coleman tells Jim Fleming why he's still looking for the next Lake Monster or Bigfoot or Thunderbird.
Rob Walker writes the weekly column "Consumed," for the New York Times Magazine...
If you heard some of Jim's readings from lauded Latin American author Eduardo Galeano's "Children of the Day" and want to hear more, voilà!
In this final segment, we take a left turn to punk.
Richard Hell co-founded the band Television in the mid-70s. He also created a look and sound that would eventually be called “punk.”
John Huss is the co-editor, with David Werther, of "Johnny Cash and Philosophy: The Burning Ring of Truth." In the book, 21 philosophers muse about the music of Johnny Cash.
Kurt Westergaard is the Danish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban in a Danish newspaper in 2005.
If you're worried about zombies every time you step outside, Max Brooks is your man.
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