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What is the connection between the Al Qaeda network and the Fox network? Between the charitable ball circuit and an ant colony? At the intersection of biology and social science, a ne... (episode)
Mike Pesca is in for Brian Lehrer.As a Chief Economist at the World Bank, Nobel-laureate Joseph Stiglitz was once on the forefront of the movement for free trade. But after seeing the... (episode)
Remember when the Catskills was a place to see Yiddish theater? What ever happened to Grossinger's and the Sha-Wan-Ga? Author Phil Brown grew up in the Borscht Belt before the soup we... (episode)
To be a gay activist used to automatically mean you were a liberal. But recently gay and lesbian conservatives like Andrew Sullivan have stolen the media spotlight. Has society then b... (episode)
Where to send a child to school can be one of the most daunting decisions a parent faces, especially in New York City. What is the balance between cost and quality, principle and prag... (episode)
Can you be spiritual and not religious? Can a discussion of the soul leave out God? What if you'd like to believe but feel you can't? Whether you live in an abbey or a den of sin, cal... (episode)
Capitol Hill denizen Cokie Roberts has long been a fixture of National Public Radio and Sunday morning television. Get the inside scoop on global warming, military spending, and intel... (episode)
No sport in America has a finer literary pedigree than Baseball. For William Carlos Williams, Amiri Baraka, and Damon Runyon, the nine muses all wore baseball caps. Writer Molly O'Nei... (episode)
Elaine Stritch said that New York is "like disco, but without the music". What do you think? Few cities have been as much praised--and maligned as the big Apple. Today, hear the musin... (episode)
Sociologist Stanley Aronowitz has been a prolific chronicler of labor relations, offering blistering critiques of the entrenched bureaucrats who have come to dominate labor unions. No... (episode)