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Peter Thiel explains that the real problem lies with hidden leverage.
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Stewart Brand’s book “The Whole Earth Discipline” is subtitled “An Ecopragmatist Manifesto.” So what is impractical about the current environmentalist movement?
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Environmentalist and author Stewart Brand helped define the 60’s. What revolution would he advise young people to start today?
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During the ‘60s, Stewart Brand trained soldiers in the U.S. infantry—and dropped acid with Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters on the weekends. Which was the more formative experience?
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How the “whole earth photo” Stewart Brand successfully lobbied NASA to release in 1966 kicked off the modern environmental movement.
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Avenue Capital chairman Marc Lasry sees leverage as the main culprit of the economic downturn. The secret to recovery: a cap on leverage.
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Prior to the crisis, regulators were more concerned with hedge funds than with banks. Why didn’t the government bailout hedge funds? Avenue Capital chairman Marc Lasry explains.
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Hedge fund founder Marc Lasry evaluates the government’s handling of the Chrysler bankruptcy and compares this financial crisis to previous ones.
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The fate of the newspaper critic is closely tied to the fate of print media. Can either survive?
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Everyone knows the staples of the Broadway repertoire; they get recycled every decade or so. Which masterpieces are we overlooking?
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Music and drama critic Terry Teachout recently wrote his first libretto; the opera became a hit. What would he advise others attempting this daunting form?
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Critic Terry Teachout describes the unrestrained, abstract magic of his favorite Louis Armstrong recording.
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Jazz is still exciting, says critic Terry Teachout, but its inability to connect with young audiences is “anxiety-making” for lovers of the art.
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How should actors strive to play Shakespeare? What should audiences watch for when they attend a production? The drama critic shares his views.
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“Pops” author Terry Teachout runs through his personal checklist of what makes a biography worth writing (hint: it’s the inner life that counts).
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As the first biographer to hear Louis Armstrong’s private tape recordings, the author of “Pops” discovered a side of the jazz genius the public never suspected.
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Critic Terry Teachout reveals the drama and music that moved him the most as a young man, and which is the more personal art form for him.
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Wall Street Journal critic Terry Teachout doesn’t worry that blogs will kill professional criticism. But through his own blog (“About Last Night”), he’s learned how much they can help the […]
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A conversation with the Wall Street Journal drama critic and author of “Pops.”