Former Vice President Mike Pence says he's been demeaned and misunderstood for his evangelical Christian values. In his new book, So Help Me God, he dives into how his religious views impact his personal life and his political ambitions, and why he feels he's experienced judgment as a result of both. In this episode, NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Pence about how the religious freedom legislation he championed can be seen as discriminatory towards LGBTQ communities, and how hostility and intolerance can be felt from different perspectives.
Decision day in Georgia as voters elect a Senator. Coping without power in North Carolina. Remembering Kirstie Alley. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
We're talking about what the CDC is calling the worst flu season in more than a decade, the runoff election the whole country will be watching, and why the REAL ID deadline was extended again.
Plus, a rental car company is making amends to customers wrongly accused of stealing cars, a dramatic celebrity defamation case is back in court, and thousands of people say "goblin mode" defines 2022.
Those stories and more news to know in around 10 minutes!
Author and former dancer Meg Howrey knows about the world of ballet. It's at the center of her new novel, They're Going to Love You, which finds an adult choreographer reflecting on her childhood relationship with her estranged father and her father's partner. In this episode, Howrey talks to NPR's Scott Simon about becoming a writer and honing in on the power that ambition, forgiveness and the passing of time can hold.
Amanda Holmes reads Lucille Clifton’s poem “What the Mirror Said.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.
This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.