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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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Rita Dove recites a German poem that continues to move her.
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Rita Dove looks forward to the day she won’t have to deconstruct how a black woman does her hair in the morning.
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As Poet Laureate, Rita Dove learned that many people are frightened of the subject.
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Rita Dove offers advice for those looking to make a career out of poetry.
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Rita Dove explains her tendency to write in the middle of the night, and her unique filing system for drafts of poems.
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A conversation with the former U.S. Poet Laureate.
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Rita Dove recalls her first poetic experience.
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Traveling as far and as often as possible can help budding green activists escape their “tiny little mindsets.”
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In 1984, Stewart Brand said that “information wants to be free” (and also expensive). A quarter century later, he revisits his famous phrase.
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How did everyone fail to recognize an $8 trillion housing bubble? Peter Thiel weighs in on what happened, and why he sees the next 20 years as crucial.
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Dubai’s current situation shows us that we are quickly shifting from an inflationary toward a deflationary political world, says Peter Thiel, one with much less tolerance the second time around.
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“Environmentalists grasp at straws a little with wind and solar,” says Stewart Brand. As the U.S. backs construction of new nuclear plants, the godfather of the green movement explains why […]
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The $700 billion bailout of the financial industry would never have been offered to Internet companies during the tech bubble bust—and that is problematic, says Peter Thiel.
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Peter Thiel sees John Maynard Keynes as his economic villain. He explains why the current financial crisis was caused by short-run thinking.
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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.
