Podcasts
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It's hard to find a food blog with more accolades than Deb Perelman’s Smitten Kitchen blog, which counts the New York Times , Martha Stewart, NPR, and Rachael Ray among its many admirers. Perelman’s philosophy is that there are no bad cooks, just… more
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Carlin Romano, critic-at-large of The Chronicle of Higher Education, spent 25 years as Literary Critic of the Philadelphia Inquirer , where he also served at various times as cultural reporter, general assignment city staffer, and correspondent… more
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The author of more than 25 books, including two Pulitzer Prize-winning works of nonfiction, E.O. Wilson has won a raft of scientific and conservation prizes, including the prestigious National Medal of Science. Wilson’s writing explores the world… more
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• Recorded Mar 11, 2012Alain de Botton's aphoristic first novel, On Love, was a winking dissertation on romantic love, published when he was just 23. It was followed by several books that explored a philosophy of everyday life, including The Architecture of Happiness… more
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Umberto Eco's new book, The Prague Cemetery is "a novel that takes the power of fakery in history to new heights," according to the Times Literary Supplement. "This work of teasing historical pseudo-reconstruction combines an intriguing… more
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• Recorded May 24, 2010"Among academic stars, Nussbaum is one of the brightest," writes one Publishers Weekly reviewer. One of America’s most influential philosophers, she is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the Philosophy… more
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• Recorded Jan 19, 2010Rebecca Goldstein’s fiction explores “the dichotomies between mind and body, intellect and passion, logos and eros,” according to one New York Times reviewer. A professor of philosophy, a MacArthur Fellow, and a 1995 winner of the National Jewish… more
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In Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer synthesizes philosophy, literature, science, and his own detective work in order to to explore the fictions that we use to justify our eating habits and reveals how such tales can justify an ignorance of the… more
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• Recorded Mar 28, 2006One of America’s most respected Jewish peace activists, Rabbi Michael Lerner is the founder and editor of Tikkun magazine, rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in San Francisco, and holds PhDs in philosophy and clinical psychology. Named one of Utne… more
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• Recorded Feb 16, 2006Bernard Henri Lévy moved to the forefront of radical French thought in the mid-1970s with his “New Philosophy, ” a unique world-view, combining pessimism and monotheism that has sparked heated debate in intellectual circles. “I am the bastard… more
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Born in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Alexander McCall Smith has led a distinguished career as a legal scholar, and more recently, as the best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels. The series received two Booker Judge's… more
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The co-director for the Center for Cognitive Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University, Dennett is the author of Breaking the Spell and Darwin's Dangerous Idea . Freedom Evolves seeks to account for free will in a world constructed… more
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