Our final interview in today’s show has nothing to do with collecting – unless you consider winning two presidential campaigns a collection of two wins. David Axelrod was the chief strategist for Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns and recently stopped by our studio to talk about the art of running for office.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Novelist Elif Shafak talks with Jim Fleming about the controversial concept of insulting Turkishness and the death of newspaper editor Hrant Dink
David Kilcullen, an advisor to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and an architect of the Troop Surge in Iraq under General Petraeus, talks about the problem with traditional counter-insurgency efforts.
BookMark: Lauren Beukes on “The Three” by Sara Lotz
Novelist Erin Morgenstern has written a dark fairy tale for adults. At the center of the novel is a magical circus.
Psychologist Carol Gilligan tells Steve Paulson that her work with teenage girls has shown her that Americans cling to “tragic histories” and have forgotten how to experience joy.
<p>Novelist, actor, screenwriter and playwright Ayad Akhtar talks about growing up in a Pakistani-American household in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.</p>
Corey Powell tells Jim Fleming that science has become the only truly functioning religion.
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