Russell Shorto is the author of "Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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A true story of 26 Mexican men who tried to cross the Sonoran desert into the US in 2001. Only 12 of them survived. The others are known today as the “Yuma 14.”
Sarah Vowell is obsessed by presidential assassinations.
Journalist Susan Orlean set out to discover why this night is so special to Americans and tells Steve Paulson about some of her Saturday night excursions.
Maybe the first step to beginning again is taking the time to remember - and, if necessary, mourn - what’s past.
Shortly after 9/11/01, Ilana Harlow talked about how creative rituals can help us.
In Super Senses, psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk talked about how trauma disrupts people's relationship with their body. This extended interview includes more on studies into how trauma rewires the brain, and how yoga can help people heal.
Colson Whitehead’s novel The Underground Railroad just won the 2016 National Book Award.
Steve Paulson spoke with him about this powerful, sweeping epic.
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