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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Bill Ayers was a member of the Weather Underground.  In this conversation with Steve Paulson, Ayers insists he was not a terrorist since his objective was never to kill people.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Celia Brooks Brown tells Anne Strainchamps vegetarian food is gaining in popularity because it is healthy and delicious.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Dorothy Marcic tells Jim Fleming that you can trace the cultural status of women by analyzing the lyrics of 20th century popular songs.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Darrin McMahon is the author of “Happiness: A History.” He tells Jim Fleming the Founding Fathers equated happiness with virtue...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Most people think of conflict as something to be avoided, but there's another way to view it -- as creative and generative. In his book "The Art of Rivalry," Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee explores how intense conflicts, broken friendships and personal reconciliations fueled some of the most dramatic breakthroughs in Modern Art. He tells Steve Paulson that the rivalry between Picasso and Matisse contributed, in part, to cubism.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Fareed Zakaria is the editor of Newsweek International magazine and the author of “The Future of Freedom: Liberal Democracy at Home and Abroad.”  He talks about how free elections are not the answer for the third world.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Chris Jones tells us what happened to the three astronauts left in space when the space shuttle Columbia was lost in 2003.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Journalist Edward Fox tells Anne Strainchamps about the mysterious and still unsolved murder of American biblical archaeologist Albert Glock.

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