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December 26, 2014
Updated  July 29, 2023
  • Author and activist Naomi Klein says we have to make a choice: capitalism or the environment. She joins to discuss her latest book: “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Environment.”
  • New York Times columnist and author Nicholas Kristof talks about his new book, “A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity.”
  • New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast chronicles caring for her aging parents in her new memoir: “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?”
  • Nancy Koehn asks: what legal rights do animals have? What rights should they have?
  • Psychologist Stephen Pinker puts his own modern spin on the Strunk & White classic style guide with “The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century.”
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