Jon Hein uses the term “jump-the-shark” to describe the precise moment when things begin to go bad.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Rick Perlstein is a historian who thinks the real story of the sixties is the rise of the modern conservative movement.
Steve Paulson presents a profile of the late writer Noel Perrin, best known for his essays on rural life.
In 1999 writer Leif Ueland was invited to ride the Playboy bus as it cris-crossed America in search of “Miss Millennium.”
Joshua Clover explains the subtitle of his book, “1989: Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This To Sing About.”
Allen Long is a former dope-smuggler and the subject of Robert Sabbag’s book “Loaded: A Misadventure on the Marijuana Trail.” Anne Strainchamps interviewed them a week apart.
Patrick Neate explains how young people from around the world adapt hip-hop to address their own concerns.
Autism's a tricky diagnosis. And its causes are also mysterious. Harvard Medical School neurologist Martha Herbert t advocates a whole-body approach, which looks at environmental toxins, vitamin deficiencies and immune problems.
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