Eugene Mirman is an indie comic and the author of an outlandish self-help send-up called "The Will to Whatevs." He tells Jim Fleming that school was horrible for him and gave rise to his nerd humor.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Nobel Laureate psychologist Daniel Kahneman talks to Steve Paulson about the two basic systems that drive the way we think. Kahneman is the author of "Thinking, Fast and Slow.'
Historian David Blight tells Jim Fleming that popular memory of the Civil War all but obliterated the liberation of Black Americans.
Author of "Waiting for Snow in Havana" started to worry about death as a child, growing up in Cuba during an era of public executions ...
Frank Kermode tells Steve Paulson that Shakespeare revolutionized the English language and worked within a culture that got most of its information from listening.
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Anthony Shadid died on assignment in Syria on February 16. In this UNCUT 2010 interview Shadid told Steve Paulson about covering war and its aftermath.
Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor says we're now living in "a secular age," but we're still trying to figure out what a post-religious world looks like, and how we can find meaning in a culture without any over-arching purpose.
Michelle Wildgen recommends "Crossing to Safety" by Wallace Stegner.
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