Whether you think it's on its way out or a permanent fixture in our culture, there's no denying that we're fascinated with books. Poet and scholar Amaranth Borsuk joins the show to explore the limits and possibilities of the book as object, as content, and as idea.

Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, describes how the science on climate change has changed throughout his career and details his own experiences witnessing those changes on the ground in the Arctic.

The Virgina Company. The Fourteenth Amendment. Dodge v Ford Motor Co. Ralph Nader. Mitt Romney. UCLA law professor Adam Winkler talks through the characters and cases that helped business corporations gain rights under the Constitution.

Lacanian psychoanalyst Bruce Fink visits the show to discuss Jacques Lacan's thoughts and writing on love.

As technological advancement leads us to confront an ever-larger bombardment of information, we have to ask ourselves: which of all this information is true or accurate?  Today's guest believes we can tell the difference between solid data and media junk if we learn how.  He's here to help us begin that important process of learning discernment amid an ocean of media.

As technological advancement leads us to confront an ever-larger bombardment of information, we have to ask ourselves: which of all this information is true or accurate?  Today's guest believes we can tell the difference between solid data and media junk if we learn how.  He's here to help us begin that important process of learning discernment amid an ocean of media.

As technological advancement leads us to confront an ever-larger bombardment of information, we have to ask ourselves: which of all this information is true or accurate?  Today's guest believes we can tell the difference between solid data and media junk if we learn how.  He's here to help us begin that important process of learning discernment amid an ocean of media.

Marcus Smith interviews a historian, Ronit Stahl, about the U.S. military chaplaincy and its role in shaping the relationship between religion and state. 

Marcus Smith speaks with Smithsonian naturalist Darrin Lunde about Theodore Roosevelt's lesser-known passion for the science of naturalism.

Kathryn Tempest, senior lecturer on Roman history at the University of Roehampton London and author of "Brutus: The Noble Conspirator," joins the show to talk about how we know what we know about Marcus Junius Brutus and his infamous assassination of Julius Caesar.