Michael Schaffer didn't want to be one of THOSE people who take excessive care of their pets, but found himself realizing that the line between normal and extreme has made a major shift in our culture in the last fifteen years.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jim Fleming talks with Mairin Ui Cheide, a sean-nos singer. Sean-nos is old-style traditional singing where songs usually tell a story.
John Haught is a Roman Catholic theologian at Georgetown University, and the author of “God After Darwin” and “God and the New Atheism.”
Nick Abadzis is the author of a graphic novel called "Laika." She was the little dog the Russians sent up into space aboard Sputnik II.
Paul Feig is the author of "Superstud: Or How I Became a 24-Year-Old Virgin."
Love him or hate him, presidential candidate and consumer advocate Ralph Nader has stuck to his principles.
Michael Chabon defends the position that genre fiction is just as worthy of respect as any other fiction.
Robert Mankoff and Roz Chast talk about what characterized New Yorker cartoons of the past, and how new cartoons are edited at the magazine.
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