Tracy Flick was the ambitious upstart of her high school in the book “Election,” later played by Reese Witherspoon in the movie. So, whatever happened to her? Author Tom Perrotta talks about his follow-up novel that follows Tracy’s life as an adult.
Read moreA conversation with novelist Jennifer Egan
Novelist Jennifer Egan discusses her novel, “The Candy House,” in which memories are uploaded, shared and exchanged with others.
Read moreWhat parents get wrong about teens and their phones
Principal investigator Emily Weinstein talks about the ways teenagers navigate their online world and to offer support to parents struggling to understand their teens’ drive to always be connected.
Read moreWhen did parenting get so competitive?
Andrew Bomback is an associate professor of medicine at Columbia University. He offers advice on how to break free of the intense cultural pressure surrounding parenting.
Read moreWho takes care of you when you die?
Journalist Hayley Campbell joins us to talk about people who deal exclusively in death – from homicide detectives to gravediggers – and to ask why death remains a taboo subject in Western culture.
Read moreWould you be happier if you got naked more?
Journalist Gloria Liu talks about the outdoorsy types who like to go naked and asks: Would she be happier if she were less prudish about her body and those around her?
Read moreWhy Americans are giving up on college
National opinion columnist Will Bunch discusses the origins of the college dream of equal opportunity, its funding failures and how degrees are now a source of cultural division.
Read moreFrom Somali nomad to California soccer mom
Shugri Said Salh talks about her childhood marked by war and her immigration to the U.S. Today, a soccer mom and nurse, she tries to impart the wisdom of her upbringing to her daughters and son.
Read moreThe photos you throw away tell a story
Jeff Ferrell talks about the thousands of photographs he’s recovered while dumpster diving and the legal and moral questions of owning someone else’s images.
Read moreWe can all use a little help with our grammar
Ellen Jovin discusses her travels around the nation answering grammar questions, why people are so keen to reveal what they don’t know and don’t understand, and how written language connects us all.
Read moreHow poverty steals peoples’ dreams
Professor Karen A. Cerulo joins us to discuss the impact socioeconomic status, gender and race can have on your dreams.
Read moreMisunderstanding math has real-world consequences
James C. Zimring, an experimental pathology professor, discusses percentages, probabilities, and the other data that can confound and even deceive us – and how to not fall into familiar, time-worn traps.
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