Mary Karr is the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University. Her...
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Mary Karr is the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University. Her...
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David Brooks and E.J. Dionne — Sinfulness, Hopefulness, and the Possibility of Politics
This is a strange, tumultuous political moment. With columnists David Brooks and E.J. Dionne, we...
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[Unedited] David Brooks and E.J. Dionne with Krista Tippett
David Brooks is a columnist for The New York Times. His books include "The Social Animal" and...
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Natasha Trethewey and Eboo Patel — How to Live Beyond This Election
This political season has surfaced our need to reimagine and re-weave the very meaning of common...
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[Unedited] Natasha Trethewey and Eboo Patel with Krista Tippett
Natasha Trethewey was the 19th U.S. Poet Laureate. Her books include "Domestic Work," "Native...
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Michael Longley — The Vitality of Ordinary Things
To reassert the liveliness of ordinary things, precisely in the face of what is hardest and most...
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[Unedited] Michael Longley with Krista Tippett
Michael Longley has written more than 20 books of poetry including "Collected Poems," "Gorse...
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Vincent Harding — Is America Possible?
In an unsettled political moment, at the end of a divisive campaign, the late, great civil rights...
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[Unedited] Vincent Harding with Krista Tippett
The late civil rights elder Vincent Harding was chairperson of the Veterans of Hope project at...
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Isabel Wilkerson — The Heart Is the Last Frontier
Go to the doctor and they won't begin to treat you without taking your history — and not just...
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[Unedited] Isabel Wilkerson with Krista Tippett
Isabel Wilkerson won the Pulitzer Prize for her work as Chicago Bureau Chief of "The New York...
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Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn — Truth, Beauty, Banjo
They are partners in music and in life — recovering something ancient and deeply American all at...
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[Unedited] Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn with Krista Tippett
Béla Fleck is one of the greatest living banjo players in the world. Abigail Washburn is a...
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James Martin — Finding God in All Things
Before Pope Francis, James Martin was perhaps the best-loved Jesuit in American life. He’s...
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[Unedited] James Martin with Krista Tippett
James Martin is a Jesuit priest and editor-at-large of "America" magazine. He’s the author of...
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Alice Parker — Singing Is the Most Companionable of Arts
Singing is able to touch and join human beings in ways few other arts can. Alice Parker is a wise...
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[Unedited] Alice Parker with Krista Tippett
Alice Parker is the artistic director of the non-profit Melodious Accord and is the author of...
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Sharon Salzberg and Robert Thurman — Meeting Our Enemies and Our Suffering
Two legendary Buddhist teachers shine a light on the lofty ideal of loving your enemies and bring...
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[Unedited] Sharon Salzberg and Robert Thurman with Krista Tippett
Robert Thurman and Sharon Salzberg helped bring Buddhism to America in the 1970s. She became a...
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Eugene Peterson — Entering Into What Is There
"Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming." These are words of the...
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