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Listeners respond to our stories on college tuition, the videogame Braid and sharing.

Listeners respond to the interview with historian Robert Kagan about Georgia. They also sound off on Noah Adams' piece on pickup trucks and the people who own them. And there are two corrections to Monday's show.

If you spend hours watching HGTV or checking the value of your neighbors' home online, you may be suffering from "house lust." Although the real estate boom has gone bust, author Dan McGinn says the obsession with homes hasn't faded.

Ex-journalist and Belief.net co-founder Steven Waldman talks about Bill Maher's new film Religulous, and about how faith is figuring in this political season — notably in the candidacy of vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin.

Director Steven Spielberg quit his post as artistic director for this summer's Olympics in Beijing to protest the Chinese government's relationship with Sudan. This isn't the first time the games have been a forum for political protest. Professor John Hoberman, a sports historian at the University of Texas, takes us back through history.

The Economist magazine compares the cost of a McDonald's Big Mac around the world to calculate what exchange rates should be and finds that major currencies are overvalued against the dollar. Correspondent John O'Sullivan explains the latest "Big Mac Index."

Philip Seymour Hoffman stars as a troubled theater director who decides his next production will be a re-creation of his own life. Hoffman talks with Melissa Block about how an actor must become an "advocate" for the imperfect characters he plays.

Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton appeared together in Unity, N.H., for their first joint appearance since Clinton dropped out of the presidential race. Before a crowd of partisans, they agreed unity is crucial to recapture the White House.

Scott Simon reflects this week on the arrest of Radovan Karadzic in Serbia.

Many listeners responded to Wednesday's interview with Joel Salatin, a Virginia farmer who tried to put lipstick on his pigs. Responses were both varied and colorful.