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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Morgan Spurlock won “Best Director” at Sundance for his documentary “Super Size Me.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

An alliance between Ralph Nader and Ron Paul?  It may sound surprising, but they've found common ground.  Nader explains how the Left and Right can come together on key issues.

 

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Italian journalist Riccardo Orizio been interviewing disgraced exiled dictators for years. He put them together in a book called “Talk of the Devil.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sales of George Orwell’s 1984 went through the roof after the latest news about the NSA’s surveillance of Americans’ communications. What would defying state control look like these days? Writer and digital activist Cory Doctorow considered the question in his novel, “Little Brother.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Matthew Crawford is a philosopher and mechanic talks about why manual work matters.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

"The Alphabet of Manliness" is politically incorrect, testosterone-laden and deliberately outrageous – an example of "fratire.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paleontologist Peter Ward tells Steve Paulson that big carnivores are unlikely to survive outside zoos but creatures that can survive around humans - like rats and coyotes - will thrive in the future.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

British novelist Jim Crace is an atheist. He doesn't believe in an afterlife, and tells Jim Fleming that he intended his novel "Being Dead" to be a comfort to readers.

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