Philosopher Colin McGinn talks about mental manipulation.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Elizabeth Samet teaches literature to future Army officers at West Point. She tells Jim Fleming why her class reads Wilfred Owen and Homer, and what lessons they draw from the poetry.
Photographer David Plowden talks about why he loves bridges and why it was important to preserve them on film.
She is the child of fundamentalist Christians but her father was a forest ranger and she grew up in a remote wilderness cabin.
Don Lattin says the whole strange trip started when Leary swallowed some magic mushrooms in Mexico in 1960.
Chang-rae Lee is a Korean-American and the author of “Aloft.” He reads a bit from the novel.
Eddie Lenihan tells a story told to him by the foreman of a road construction crew in Ireland.
When a loved one dies, most of us turn to a professional, someone like Caitlin Doughty. She's a licensed mortician, death activist, and creator of the popular webseries "Ask A Mortician". In this interview, she talks about what happens when a body is prepared for burial.
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