Terry Tempest Williams adores Thoreau. She says his passion for social justice and his love of nature are intimately connected.
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Is hip hop strictly for the under-30 crowd? Todd Boyd tells Anne Strainchamps it’s a message of empowerment for Black Americans.
“We gon’ be alright.” That line from Kendrik Lamar hit song, “Alright” became the rallying cry, an anthem, for the Black Lives Matter movement.
Those lines are also the title of Jeff Chang’s new book. In it Chang gives us powerful and provocative essays on race, desegregation and hip-hop.
Rehman Tungekar sat down with Chang to talk about the important role that hip hop plays in creating lasting political change.
First it was the Islamic State of Iraq, ISIS. Then the Levant Islamic State of Iraq, ISIL. And now IS – a self-described Islamic State. But what about the youth of the Arab World? What do they want?
The nexus of science and religion has become a point of passion for interviewer Steve Paulson. In this segment, Steve looks back at TTBOOK's first interview with biologist E.O. Wilson.
Wild Forager Sam Thayer teaches classes on wild harvesting and says in his work, the first thing he has to deal with is fear.
Stephen Asma teaches philosophy at Columbia College in Chicago. He talks to Anne Strainchamps about his book "On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears."
"There is nothing romantic about death," Christian Wiman says.
The poet and editor of Poetry Magazine has been battling blood cancer for years. In his most recent book of poems he breathes life into writing about mortality.
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