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07/06/2009
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Even a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet has to take an odd job here and there to make ends meet. (2:46)

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06/30/2009
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Episode: #05089
Kevin Mattson discusses the relevance of Jimmy Carter's underappreciated "national malaise" speech. (06:03)
June 30, 2009
 - Kevin Mattson

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06/24/2009
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Episode: #05086
Matthew Crawford explores the dichotomy between "knowledge" work and manual labor. (07:19)
June 24, 2009
 - Matthew Crawford

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Episode: #05085
Howard Dean believes the American government can pay for a public health insurance option because it will generate more jobs. (04:21)
June 23, 2009
 - Howard Dean, David Kilcullen

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06/22/2009
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1,861
Episode: #05084
Stephen suggests punching randomly until we find the enemy among us, and Simon Schama writes a history of the future of America. (00:24)
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June 22, 2009
 - Simon Schama

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06/22/2009
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Episode: #05084
Simon Schama admits that out of all the countries' histories he's covered, the United States has the greatest. (06:45)
June 22, 2009
 - Simon Schama

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06/18/2009
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13,728
Episode: #05083
Paul Muldoon and Stephen recite "Tea" together to help it become the number one poem in America. (04:55)
June 18, 2009
 - Paul Muldoon

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06/04/2009
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19,476
Episode: #05075
Dag Soderberg takes the Bible out of the bookshop and onto the coffee table with "Bible Illuminated." (05:51)

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06/02/2009
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2,947
Episode: #05073
The FDA challenges medical claims made by Cheerios, and Jim Moran protects kids from erectile dysfunction advertising. (00:38)

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06/02/2009
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9,428
Episode: #05073
Katty Kay explains the significant value of women in the workplace, even though they work in different ways than men. (05:21)

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06/01/2009
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6,262
Episode: #05072
Byron Dorgan doesn't believe in the kind of banking modernization that caused the Great Depression. (05:57)

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05/20/2009
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24,388
Episode: #05070
Bob Graham's diary doesn't say anything about the CIA briefing him on waterboarding. (06:56)

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05/20/2009
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14,397
Episode: #05070
Seth Shostak believes that, unless Earth is a miracle, there is most likely life among the trillion planets. (06:02)

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05/19/2009
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10,447
Episode: #05069
Walter Kirn believes that putting Ivy League schools like Princeton on the web would show those attending state schools they're not inferior. (06:24)

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05/13/2009
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3,229
Episode: #05066
The government has a new method for funding health care, and Michael Pollan defends food. (00:28)

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05/13/2009
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21,357
Episode: #05066
Michael Pollan advises that the best food to eat is anything with less than five ingredients in it. (05:18)

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Episode: #05065
Julia Sweig explains why America should bother opening trade relations with Cuba. (03:41)

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Episode: #05059
Jonathan Alter tells Stephen how Obama's first 14 Mondays stack up against FDR's. (04:49)

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Episode: #05058
Fox News exposes liberal textbooks, AmeriCorps increases its mind control, and a girl is strip-searched for ibuprofen. (06:33)

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04/29/2009
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11,034
Episode: #05058
David Kessler wants to save lives by getting Americans to eat less. (05:08)