Jerry Aronson spent a dozen years filming the great Beat poet Allen Ginsberg and produced a documentary called "The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Luis Alberto Urrea tells Jim Fleming about the business of smuggling illegal aliens across the Arizona desert and the tremendous mortality rate of this dangerous passage.
What if Karl Marx were alive today and came back for a visit? That's the premise of the one-man show "Marx in Soho," starring Brian Jones and written by the late historian Howard Zinn.
Odessa Piper is the chef and proprietor of L’Etoile Restaurant in Madison, Wisconsin and a champion of cuisine prepared from locally available food.
Micah Sifry tells Jim Fleming how the United States became largely a two party state, and what benefits a third party can provide.
Nicholas Shakespeare tells Steve Paulson that Chatwin was a man of mystery and paradox who was willing to toy with the strictly factual to preserve an emotional truth. We also hear travel writer Paul Theroux comment on Chatwin, a long-time friend.
What are the basic buildings blocks of the universe? Some physicists now say they're not subatomic particles or even the laws of physics, but information itself. Physicist Paul Davies explains.
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.
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