Shows
“American Conversation with Global Attitude”
Mark Blyth (8): How Germany gets to eat our lunch
Mark Blyth makes the post-meltdown almost simple, in his Glasgow-pub vernacular: the US may be pulling out of its finance crisis but we’re still losing our industrial base. Germany is making the Euro crisis worse, but it’s shoring up its productive future with a massive investment in alternative energy…
Jeanette Winterson: What it Takes, in Letters and Life
Jeanette Winterson digresses from her rough and tumble, saved-by-literature life to matters of spirit, politics and the digital age.
Thomas Mallon’s Watergate: Truth in Fiction, Finally
Thomas Mallon's fine, funny imagination makes a better Watergate story in fiction than the "facts" and the "news" ever did.
Lisa Randall: What we talk about when we talk about science…
We talk to Lisa Randall, theoretical physicist at Harvard and at CERN, about science - thinking about it, discovering it, and pushing at its very boundaries.
Dimitar Sasselov: new life in a young universe
Dimitar Sasselov is bonding the far poles of science -- astronomy and molecular biology -- in a new search for life on distant planets.
David Weinberger in “the smartest room in the house”
David Weinberger explains how the Internet liberated knowledge: toppled hierarchies of learning, sent experts packing. We watch "the room" now, not "the smartest guy in the room."
Anthony Shadid: An immeasurable loss
Anthony Shadid, two-time Pulitzer-prize reporter on Iraq, had the nerve to say Americans missed the point: we didn't win that war.
Pico Iyer: Channeling Graham Greene and the World Spirit
The strongest dialog in Iyer's busy brain seems to run between Emerson and the late English novelist Graham Greene ...
