If your mind is nothing more than brain chemistry, do you have free will? In this EXTENDED interview, cognitive neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga says new brain science should change our thinking about this old philosophical question.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Rob Walker writes the weekly column "Consumed," for the New York Times Magazine...
Jedediah Purdy is the author of “For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Today” and “Being America: Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World.”
In Laura Poitras's film "My Country, My Country" she shoots in cinema verite style and based her film on the actions of an Iranian physician and his family around the recent Iranian election.
Katharine Rogers tells Jim Fleming that there’s a lot more to Oz than the Wizard, and that Baum always loved the theater and would have been thrilled by the Judy Garland movie.
"Ghostwalk" is an intellectual thriller set partly in Isaac Newton's time and concerning his interest in alchemy.
Peter Robb tells Steve Paulson that Caravaggio was a violent man with an extensive criminal record, but not a psychopath.
Lewis Hyde invokes the cultural commons – that vast store of art and ideas from the past that enrich everybody's present.
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