"Improbable Scholars" by David L. Kirp
Statistically speaking, most of our youngsters will continue to be educated in mainstream public schools. The good news, as Education Writer David L. Kirp» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
View Article"Ghosts of Jim Crow" by F. Michael Higginbotham
When America inaugurated its first African American president, in 2009, many wondered if the country had finally become a "post-racial" society. In Ghosts» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
View Article"What's Going On at UAardvark?" by Lawrence Wittner
Lawrence Wittner, Professor of History emeritus at the State University of New York @ Albany, is an award-winning writer and political activist who taught» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
View Article"18 in America: A Young Golfer's Epic Journey to Find the Essence of the...
At age 17, Dylan Dethier couldn’t help but think he’d never really done anything with his life. So, two months before his freshman year was set to begin,» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
View Article"Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century" by Patrick Smith
Americans cherish their national myths, some of which predate the country’s founding. But the time for illusions, nostalgia, and grand ambition abroad has» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
View Article"Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right: What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius...
Texas may well be America’s most controversial state. Evangelicals dominate the halls of power, millions of its people live in poverty, and its death row» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
View Article"The Longest Road" by Philip Caputo
Standing on the weatherworn shores of the Alaskan coast, Pulitzer Prize winning author Philip Caputo watched Eskimo schoolchildren pledge allegiance to» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
View ArticleM. Night Shyamalan Talks About "I Got Schooled" And Closing America's...
In 2008, Oscar-nominated film director M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs) decided to take an active role in helping fix whats wrong» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
View Article"Sea And Civilization" By Lincoln Paine
Historian Lincoln Paine has just written a monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
View Article"Flyover Lives" By Diane Johnson
Growing up in a small river town in Illinois, Diane Johnson always dreamed of floating down the Mississippi and off to see the world. Years later, at...» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
View Article"The Triple Package" By Amy Chua And Jed Rubenfeld
Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld join us to discuss their controversial book of The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of...» E-Mail This
View Article"Wondrous Beauty: The Life And Adventures Of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte"...
Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte was renowned as the most beautiful woman of nineteenth-century Baltimore. Her marriage in 1803 to Jérôme Bonaparte, the...» E-Mail This
View Article"America's Fiscal Constitution: Its Triumph And Collapse" By Bill White
With insights gained from original scholarship and an unusual breadth of experience in finance and government, Bill White distils practical lessons...» E-Mail This
View ArticleBIFF - "Blue Gold: American Jeans"
Blue Gold: American Jeans is a feature-length documentary about how one unlikely garment ended up connecting us all. Following vintage jeans hunter...» E-Mail This
View Article'The Republic Of Imagination: America In Three Books'
Azar Nafisi, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, is here to tell us about her new book: The Republic of Imagination:...
View ArticleThe New Isolationism And The Coming Global Disorder By Bret Stephens
Bret Stephens, winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, is the foreign affairs columnist and deputy editorial page editor of The Wall Street...
View ArticleThe Limits Of Liberty In Modern America
David Shipler reported for the New York Times from 1966 to 1988 in New York, Saigon, Moscow, Jerusalem, and Washington DC. He is the author of six...
View ArticleAdams, Jefferson, And The Misfits Who Saved Free Speech
When the United States government passed the Bill of Rights in 1791, its uncompromising protection of speech and of the press were unlike anything the...
View ArticleSimon Majumdar Finds America With His Fork
Simon Majumdar is a food writer, broadcaster, and author of Eat My Globe and Eating for Britain. He is a recurring judge on Iron Chef, The Next Iron...
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