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Did you manage during the day to do one thing you really wanted to do?
4mins
On reconciling Bach and the Holocaust.
1mins
Harbison’s interest in history keeps him from being fully optimistic.
4mins
Sometimes just sitting down and knocking out a cord on the piano can be enough.
10mins
Harbison strives to create a tenacious afterimage.
5mins
Harbison never thought he’d have any interest in doing anything but music.
10mins
Harbison lives with, amid and around music.
1mins
Our capacity for reason empowers us to overcome the bad side of our characters.
It is the ability and willingness to reconsider your beliefs.
1mins
The will of the husband is absolute except when he asks you to forsake Allah, says Hirsi Ali.
The death threats have made daily life more meaningful.
2mins
Faith and reason, Meacham says, are not incompatible.
1mins
Hirsi Ali puts her faith in the young Muslims who are open to Western ideas.
4mins
Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Iran and the nuclear problem.
3mins
The digital revolution, Meacham says, has been liberating for print.
Journalists write history before it is history.
2mins
Hirsi Ali recalls the promise of African liberation and the disappointment of backsliding.
8mins
Hirsi Ali remembers Sister Aziza, who introduced her to extremist aspects of Islam.
What three values are you willing to die for?