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.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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The authors of “Persepolis” and “Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth” speak together at the Wisconsin Book Festival 2006.
Michael Muhammad Knight wrote a novel called "The Taqwacores." He made up the word: taqwa is Arabic for piety and core means hardcore.
Robert Weinberg tells Jim Fleming that superheroes’ powers haven’t kept up with the times and offers more up-to-date explanations of how The Incredible Hulk got that way and why Superman is so strong.
Stanford English professor Jay Fliegelman loves to collect books that have a history. He tells Jim Fleming why he loves the marginalia and battered pages of his books.
Kendall Taylor is the author of the most complete account yet of the marriage of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Taylor tells Steve Paulson that the marriage was volatile from the beginning.
Mira Nair is an Oscar nominated, India- born film-maker who divides her time between America and the sub-continent.
We hear a conversation between Steve Paulson and German historian Jessica Gienow-Hecht. They discuss why the huge casualties among German civilians have been taboo for discussion.
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