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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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We need a forum to connect the set of rapidly emerging societies to the developed world, says Larry Summers.
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Larry Summers thinks one of the most important measure of our age will be how we will welcome the developing world into the league of developed states.
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Larry Summers sees tremendous potential in America’s ability to deal with looming challenges.
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Kurt Andersen discusses the struggle of writing. He says all writing is a moment-to-moment struggle to find the right words within the right structure.
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Kurt Andersen discusses the novel as an intellectual undertaking. He talks about the joy he finds creating his own world.
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Ambition and impatience, Larry Summers says, go hand in hand.
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By having that reflexive skepticism and proclivity to challenge, you’ll learn that the emperor doesn’t have any clothes.
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Andersen discusses his creative process. For him, it is both a solo and collaborative effort.
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The puzzle chains are long, but Larry Summers say that doesn’t mean they’re secure.
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Andersen talks about the writing process, and his own method collecting extensive notes on a given subject and then allowing time for them to distill in his mind.
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An Omahan humility gives Andersen a different perspective on the city.
How did Nelson Mandela find such spirit and such strength?
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Mogahed on the so-called “youth bulge.”
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Religious and national identities are not mutually exclusive, Mogahed says.