Erik Larson talks about the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 and what it meant for Chicago at the turn of the century, and talks about America’s first serial killer who was operating in Chicago at the same time.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Charles Wilkins talks of his summer job as a college student when he worked for a large suburban cemetery in Toronto.
Philosopher Lars Svendsen's Dangerous Idea? We shouldn't fear being lazy.
NPR's former Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr talked with Steve Paulson about the audacity of politicians in 2008.
Veronica Rueckert took a crash course from DJ Puzzle (Jason Donnelly) and talked to Stephen Weber.
Christine Wicker tells Anne Strainchamps about some of the witches, elves, vampires and other oddities she met.
David Margolick is the author of “Strange Fruit,” a history of the revolutionary Billie Holiday song. Margolick tells Jim Fleming who wrote the song, what happened the first time Holiday sang it, and what it’s lasting impact has been.
Legal scholar Cass Sunstein believes humans are innately irrational.
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