Karen Armstrong is a historian of religion. Her latest book is "The Case for God."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Imagine a portable listening device you wear like a walkman that converts the sounds around you into a form of music. Noah Vawter developed one.
Paul Hegarty is a lecturer in Philosophy and Visual Culture at University College Cork in Ireland. He's also really into Noise/Music and is the author of "Noise/Music: A History."
Journalist Ken Wiwa tells Steve Paulson about his father's protest against the influence of oil money in Nigeria, and what it was like to grow up in his dominating presence.
<p>9/11 REMEMBERED: Philippe Petit spent years planning his illegal 1974 performance at the World Trade Center where he tight-rope walked between the Twin Towers. Petit looks back at the event and talks about what the destruction of the Towers meant for him.</p>
With the militant group ISIS threatning the stability of Iraq, we're thinking about sectarianism in the country. To get some context on the divide between Iraqi Sunnis, Shias and Kurds, we turn to David Rohde. He's a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of Beyond War: Reimagining America's Role and Ambitions in a New Middle East.
Mike Hoyt talks with Steve Paulson about an e-mail by a Wall Street Journal correspondent that created a furor within the journalistic community about the role and responsibility of embedded reporters.
Austerity is a choice, and some question if it's a good one.
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