Brad Hirschfield was once a religious fanatic. He was one of a small number of Jewish settlers living in Hebron, in the middle of thousands of Palestinians.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Writer Junot Diaz tells us why he's a big fan of Samuel R. Delany's novel, "Dark Reflections".
David George Gordon tells Jim Fleming cicadas outnumber human beings two hundred thousand to one, so we have to do something to even the odds. Why not eat them?
The Silk Road was once the great meeting place between the East and the West - a network of ancient trading routes winding through China and India, across Central Asia and Iran to the Mediterranean.
Pop culture critic Camille Paglia talks with Anne Strainchamps about our obsession with makeovers and the human impulse to mythologize public figures.
Videographer Frank Boll is satisfied with only a few seconds of good wolf footage in his series "Wolves in Wisconsin". He talks about what it took to get that much.
David Shields talks with Anne Strainchamps about his book, which is a meditation on how our bodies decay and die, and his irrepressible father who is 97 and who doesn't give death the time of day.
Doris Kearns Goodwin talks with Jim Fleming about her best-selling biography, "Team of Rivals."
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