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The author describes an insatiable autodidact.
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The author mentions how the race question was never quite solved.
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The author characterizes Lincoln as a president who was unafraid to suspend some basic rights for the betterment of the union
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It was “social opportunity,” not religion, which drove Lincoln, according to the author.
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The author maps Lincoln’s trajectory over his career on the slavery issue.
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The author shares how he went about writing Lincoln’s narrative.
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The author speaks about the nation’s sixteenth president and his ongoing contemporary appeal.
Fortune magazine today reminds us of the importance of social science to the new global economy. “These days the tech landscape is an unpredictable jumble,” writes Fortune’s Jon Fortt. “Consumers […]
Last week, Big Think uploaded a new interview with Clayton Christensen, the Harvard Business School “disruptive innovation” evangelizer. Now Adam Singer on the Future Buzz website, lists a few ways […]
In addition to legalized marijuana, the world’s largest tulip industry, and an insanely high quality of life, the Netherlands can also count some of the world’s happiest children according to […]
According to their website, this new grassroots anti-stimulus activist club, which is currently the most googled item on Google, is “a coalition of citizens and organizations concerned about the recent […]
Gmail’s hiccup this morning that wiped out the world’s most popular email program for millions of users across the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe for four long hours […]
Over the last few weeks, the economy may have a turned a corner. After several years in which public confidence has greatly exceeded any reasonable level based on underlying economic […]
No Bank Nationalization! No!
Clay Christensen, Harvard Business School professor, global business guru, and Big Think expert chats on Education Week tomorrow on the merits of “dispruptive innovation.“ Christensen has turned education reform on […]
Inaugural poetess and Professor of African-American Studies at Yale Elizabeth Alexander is sitting down with Big Think today. She helped ring in the Obama presidency with her poem, “Praise Song […]
David Orr raised the question in Sunday’s Times Book Review of what constitutes “greatness” in poetry, writing, “our largely unconscious assumptions work like a velvet rope: if a poet looks […]
When Google cataloged its one-trillionth web page last year, it seemed like an event of epistemological proportions. Trillions aren’t just bandied about—unless we are talking about the federal deficit or […]
The space shuttle program, set for retirement next year, appears to be limping to its death. First, the shuttle Discovery’s mission to the International Space Station was delayed this week—again. […]
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Gaston Caperton explains the role of the nation’s entryway to college.