Wonder Cabinet

Single women are a rising political force in America. Is this the revolution our feminist grandmothers fought for? All the Single Ladies: Rebecca Traister on the Rise of Independent Women; Susan B. Anthony Invites Frederick Douglass To Tea ; Planned Parenthood Founder Gets Novel Treatment; The Real Louisa May Alcott; Dangerous Idea: Men Are Also Victims of Sexual Discrimination; The Rediscovery of Nina Simone.

Chefs and writers explore the language of food on the plate and on the page. We meet novelists who cook, chefs who write, and a poet of pies.  It's an hour of deliciousness in words and food. Writing Restaurants with Michelle Wildgen; Sweetness #9 with Stephan Eirik Clark; Pie Poetry with Kate Lebo; The Novelist and the Cook - Alice Waters and Michelle Wildgen; Thug Kitchen and the Politics of Food Writing; Dangerous Idea: Capitalism Creates Psychopaths; On Our Minds: Computers are Making Us Smarter! (Really).

A new generation of fitness trackers and wearable computers has ushered in a era of "quantifying" various aspects of our lives. But can all these numbers actually lead to real insights about who we are? From Bites to Bytes - Quantifying the Everyday; Does Data Give Life Meaning?; The Sonified Self - Transforming Data Into Music; Our Automated Future; Chronicling, then Letting Go.

It’s Oscar season and Hollywood is once again celebrating the best films of the year. It would seem that we're a nation obsessed with movies. As a country, we spend billions of dollars to watch them every year, and celebrate them with a variety of awards ceremonies. But what separates a classic from a box office disaster? This hour, we turn to a few of the people who know film best -- the critics who review the latest releases week after week. A.O. Scott on the Art of Criticism; Manohla Dargis Recommends 'Boyhood'; Roger Ebert on Film Criticism; Crying at the Movies; When Killers Go Unpunished; Inside Hollywood's Race Problem.

Fashion Matters Jacki Lyden on Why Fashion Matters; A Philosophy of Fashion; Gender and Race on the Runway; Fashion, Fast and Slow; The Hindus: An Alternative History.

Do you ever get the feeling that this is Big Soda's world and we're just living in it? Even though soda sales have declined in recent years, Big Soda looms large in our popular culture. In this hour, we explore "Coca-Cola Capitalism" and soda politics.  Soda Politics; The Vestibules -- Laurence Olivier for Diet Coke; The Secret History of Soft Drinks; Coca-Cola Capitalism; Coke and Cocaine; Why Football Matters.

In this hour, we meet science-fiction writers who are thinking the unthinkable and daring to go beyond the limits of our imaginations. The Book of Strange New Things - Michel Faber; Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang; Questionable Practices - Eileen Gunn; BookMark: Stephen Burn on "Infinite Jest"; On Our Minds: Kurt Godel.

Is it ever possible to be too racially sensitive or tolerant? This hour, a look at how we talk about touchy subjects -- whether political correctness promotes safety or censorship. Is Political Correctness a Form of Censorship?; Political Correctness Is About Safety; The Limits of Tolerance; Racial Paranoia; Dangerous Idea: Trauma; Is It A Problem To Teach Rape Law?.

 So what about that phrase “a more perfect union”? What does that mean? And how do we reconcile all the different visons of what a more perfect union might be? Especially the ones you disagree with. Are the Armed Men in Oregon Religious Fanatics?; A Former Neo- Nazi Skinhead, Now What?; 19th Century Utopias; The Soundtrack to a Literal "Cult" Sensation; Do You Believe in Gnomes?.

We explore the creative process in this hour -- DEVO co-founder Mark Mothersbaugh talks about his visual art exhibition, "Myopia," and Joshua Wolf Shenk lays waste to the myth of the lone genius. Steal Like an Artist - Austin Kleon; Powers of Two - Joshua Wolf Shenk; DEVO Co-Founder Mark Mothersbaugh's Visual Art; BookMark: Charles Duhigg on "The Children"; On Our Minds: The Great Migration.