Kevin Jennings grew up gay in the South as the son of a fundamentalist preacher. He later founded GLSEN, advocacy group for gay and lesbian students.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Marcel Danesi tells Steve Paulson why it’s dangerous for a culture when its members forsake maturity and wisdom in favor of a search for eternal youth.
Laura Miller talks with Steve Paulson about her long relationship with the Narnia books. She read them as a child and loved them.
Oscar Robertson is one of the all-time great basketball players. He talks with Steve Paulson about his constant struggle against racism during his playing years.
Jeannette Walls is a famous gossip columnist in New York on MSNBC, but she's the child of hippies who lived a nomadic life in cars and abandoned buildings always one step ahead of their creditors.
Australian poet Les Murray is considered by many critics to be the greatest poet in the English language today. Steve Paulson sat down with Les Murray for a rare interview.
Richard Zacks, author of “The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd,” tells Jim Fleming that Kidd, was a privateer - a pirate hunter - not a pirate.
Italian journalist Riccardo Orizio been interviewing disgraced exiled dictators for years. He put them together in a book called “Talk of the Devil.”
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