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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Heinz Insu Fenkl is one of the world’s authorities on North Korean comics. In this NEW and UNCUT interview, Fenkl talks with Steve Paulson about what comic books tell us about North Korean society.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

If you really want to know how to disappear, you might want to talk to the U.S. Marshall Service, which runs the Federal Witness Protection Program.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

When Kevin Miyazaki was a child, there was something his family rarely discussed . His father’s family was interned in American camps during World War II. Now let’s not mince words here.  His father’s family is Japanese and lived in Takoma, Washington. But after the attacks on Pearl Harbor, Japanese-Americans were rounded up and put into concentration camps. Kevin went on to be a successful fine arts photographer. But one day his family’s past merged with his art.

Kevin's work is on view as a part of the 2013 Wisconsin Triennial at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. Click here to see the photos he discussed in the interview and to read his catalogue "Guide to Modern Camp Homes: 10 New Models and Plans for Persons of Japanese Ancestry."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jack Sullivan is the author of "Hitchcock's Music." He tells Anne Strainchamps about the partnership between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Hermann which resulted in some of the greatest film scores ever written.

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George Crile tells Jim Fleming how Charlie Wilson almost singlehandedly persuaded the U.S. government to fund the Afghan Mujahadeen in their war against the invading Soviets.

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Gordon Grice talks with Anne Strainchamps about the wilder side of nature and why we overlook the ferocity of wild animals at our peril.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Theologian Harvey Cox tells Anne Strainchamps that speaking in tongues is an ecstatic form of worship that has been present in Christianity since the days of the Apostles.  It makes some church leaders nervous, but is a way for ordinary people to experience mysticism.

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Greil Marcus tells Steve Paulson that self-invention has been a part of American nationhood since Puritan times.

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