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The price of 4 year universities has been increasing by an average of 5 percent per year, a trend that is both unsustainable and contrary to the needs of a […]
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If the social entrepreneurship movement is going to be successful, an entirely new social contract will need to be forged between the private and public sectors. As the work of […]
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Big Think sits down with the Founder and CEO of Year Up.
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It’s a tremendous, disruptive opportunity for the individual as well as the industry.
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Will she be the standard bearer for the religious right?
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What is “Biblical capitalism,” and how is it changing the American right wing? Jeff Sharlet charts the rise of a juggernaut.
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After another fiercely contested election, political scientist John Aldrich wonders whether America’s polarized politics will ever change.
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Libertarians are not a threat to the GOP: It is not easy to build a large coalition against gun control and for gay marriage.
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The author shares one of the “ranting inner monologues” that make him toss and turn.
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With skyscrapers rising and infrastructure rotting, novelist Paul Auster explains what makes him “wistful” about his changing city.
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The novelist believes that it’s “the burning need to do it,” not to be praised, that spurs great writing.
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Philip Roth believes books will soon be dead. Paul Auster respectfully—and strenuously—disagrees.
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Known for bending genres and playing with the paradoxes of identity, Paul Auster explains what anchors his novels in the personal and the real.
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For a young future author, traveling in France after drawing a high number in the Vietnam draft, the opportunity to live abroad was as lucky as escaping war.
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For “Invisible” author Paul Auster, writing novels never gets easier, yet he no longer dreads the blank page.
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As costs run away in the legal and medical industries, pay practices are going to change, explains Ben Heineman, a senior fellow at Harvard Law School.
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When the Israeli press uncovered a scandal at America’s largest company, former general counsel Ben Heineman was on the case. The first lesson he learned: take your head out of […]