Dambisa Moyo was born in Zambia, got a Master's degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a Ph.D. in Economics from Oxford...
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Music critic Bill Friskics-Warren is the author of “I’ll Take You There: Pop Music and the Urge for Transcendence.” He talks with Anne Strainchamps about the spiritual aide of popular music.
What does it mean to be free? And what does it mean to live a personally authentic, honest life with ourselves and with others? These are the questions that Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their existential friends wrestled with in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Sarah Bakewell makes the case that their late-night conversations are especially relevant today. She's the author of "At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails."
The asexual movement calls into question everything you thought you knew about love and romance. We talk with David Jay, founder of AVEN, the Asexuality Visibility and Education Network.
Daniel Alarcon is from Peru and the author of “Lost City Radio,” a fable about a nameless country broken in the aftermath of war and the woman who does a radio program for the families of the disappeared.
Dave Barry went on the campaign trail with some of the lesser known presidential candidates and describes some of the humiliation they encounter.
From one of Israel's leading novelists, a gorgeous and searing story about war and grief.
David Thomson makes the case that "Psycho" was a ground-breaking film that forever changed American cinema and America itself.
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