Descartes said “I think, therefore I am.” Bestseller Russell Shorto reminds us it’s more complicated than that, in his new tale of faith, reason, and “Descartes’ Bones.”
Comments [17]Philosopher Susan Neiman gets back to basics in her new book “Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists.”
Comments [76]Forty years after Robert Pirsig began the journey that became “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” we retrace his tracks and his philosophy of life.
Comments [18]Man walks into a restaurant and asks: “How do you prepare your chickens?” And the cook responds: “Nothing special really. We just tell them they’re gonna die.” Bada boom. The human condition in a two-line joke about chickens.
Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein see philosophy today all over the world of humor. A world where Woody [...]
Mike Huckabee joins us. We’ll get the Huckabee view of the GOP now, and the Republican Party in the Obama era.
After the terror in Mumbai, we look at what the bloody attacks mean for India, Pakistan, and the United States.
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British actor Michael Palin on how Monty Python came to be.
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Helene Cooper and her amazing story of privilege and flight from Africa in “The House at Sugar Beach.”
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