In 2003, Craig Mullaney led an infantry rifle platoon along the hostile border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Bennett Alan Weinberg walks Anne Strainchamps through the science of caffeine. Sure it’s an addictive drug, but it has its good points!
Novelist Elinor Lipman has written an essay for the New York Times on the fine art of blurbing – writing short, pithy quotes to appear on fellow authors’ dust jackets.
Historian Deborah Harkness has transmuted her expertise in early alchemy and Elizabethan magic into a pair of best-selling novels, A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night. We talk with her about the connections between magic and science.
To hear an EXTENDED interview with Deborah Harkness, LISTEN HERE.
BookMark: Vikram Chandra reviews “The King Must Die” by Mary Renault.
Author Chuck Klosterman's Dangerous Idea? Laugh tracks are the most philosophically stupid thing. Ever.
We've interviewed Klosterman a number of times, here's a link to more interviews with him.
Errol Morris talks with Steve Paulson about Robert McNamera who is the subject of his latest film, “The Fog of War.”
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