Journalist and documentary film-maker Jack Newfield considers boxing his guilty pleasure. He tells Steve Paulson that given fairly matched opponents, boxing reveals courage and character.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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James Yee was the Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo Bay prison until he was falsely accused of treason and imprisoned without trial.
Renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt has just published a new book about the foundation for the Renaissance and the modern world.
Crime fiction is increasingly a global phenomenon. Maybe you've heard of Nordic Noir... but how about Euro Noir? Or African, Indian, Japanese crime fiction?
Academics are no longer just ivory tower analysts. The Defense Department has recently hired civilian anthropologists and social scientists as on-the-ground advisers to soldiers.
Jack Abramoff. He’s hardly a murderer. But to many in the Beltline, he’s the devil incarnate.
Rev. Alex Gee grew up in the shadow of the UW campus in Madison, and today is one of the city's senior ministers. Yet like many African American men he's been the victim of racial profiling in his own hometown. Rev. Gee spoke to Charles Monroe Kane about the everyday realities of racism and classism, and how they lock people out of the Wisconsin Idea.
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