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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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Why isn’t the New Yorker editor worried about what has been happening to the magazine industry?
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The President couldn’t assume he would get the African-American vote just because he was black. He had to go out and win it.
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The New Yorker editor compares the current atmosphere in the U.S. to what happened in Israel under Yitzhak Rabin: the far right stirred things up so much that the political […]
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Obama wants to win. He’s “not some kind of pie-eyed idealist.”
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Jerry Kellman spent countless hours with the President eating at McDonald’s and talking about life.
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A conversation with the editor of The New Yorker.
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Consider the Martin Luther era, when things in the Catholic Church were even worse.
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It’s alarmist to say that one-half of a percent of the euro’s G.D.P. could cause the collapse of the currency.
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The chances for getting climate change policies through Congress—or through Parliaments worldwide—are greatly improving thanks, in part, to the terrible tragedy of Hurricane Katrina.
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We don’t need an energy or resources tax; we need an instrument for letting resource prices rise in parallel with resource productivity.
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We don’t need to surrender anything that would drastically alter our way of life, but we need to think of our grandchildren.
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We could be much more pro-active in lessening our impact on the environment. Energy-efficient cars and “passive houses” can make a real difference.
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The financial system has drifted away from the industrial and commercial system, and the leaders of financial institutions have found they can make a lot of money by building organizations […]
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Even though China and India are expected to have as much as 40 percent of the world’s GDP by midcentury, incomes in those countries will still be one-third of those […]
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Why an “inside outsider” might be the next person most suited to take over a company.
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A conversation with the Harvard Business School professor.
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Our minds don’t capture and record reality, but rather blend experience with fantasy—a process that often results in convincing, yet completely false, memories.
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Remaining mentally active and engaged is critical to retaining information as we age.
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The neuroscientist explains how our mind produces memories and why they actually alter our DNA.
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Less than 5% of Alzheimer’s Disease cases are genetically transmitted. The disease is a consequence of aging, and doesn’t target specific demographics.