Jason Cohen (with Steve Okazaki) made the wrenching documentary “Black Tar Heroin.” The film follows the lives of five young heroin addicts in San Francisco.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Cultural Critic Richard Todd looked at modern life and saw others telling what is and isn't real.
Religious historian Karen Armstrong doesn’t like the either/or, good/evil dichotomy. She believes we are hard-wired to be both selfish and kind.
Hisham Aidi—an expert on globalization and social movements—discusses the role of hip hop in the French-Muslim community and the recent debates about the genre.
California surgeon Leonard Schlain tells Steve Paulson that ancestral women made the connection between sex and birth and the moon and discovered time.
Errol Morris made a documentary about Abu Ghraib called "Standard Operating Procedure." Journalist Philip Gourevitch and Morris have written a companion book that examines what really happened at Abu Ghraib.
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.
Here's our final poem to share for this National Poetry Month, Jim reading Max Garland's "A Lesson in Love."
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