The wonder and the ethics of deep time. The "wood-wide-web". The claustrophobia of the Anthropocene. In our 200th episode, UNDERLAND author Robert MacFarlane takes us on a journey deep into the Earth and ourselves.
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“We don’t want to make this; Moses is Darth Vader and Jacobs is a perfect angel from heaven.”
A conversation with the author and screenwriting guru.
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N+1 editor Charles Petersen’s piece in the new New York Review of Books compares Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to legendary city planner Robert Moses. Do we agree? Can we concede […]
A conversation with the cartoon editor of The New Yorker.
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Richard Dowden says Mugabe will not bow from power if only to spite the West.
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Robert Merton says an understanding of risk is important for analyzing the global meltdown, and George Soros explains the role risk played in the economic crisis.
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Robert Merton pinpoints our place in the chronology of the economic crisis (October 2008).
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Robert Merton asks why there aren’t regulatory bodies to oversee economic calamity.
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The New Jersey senator tells a classic immigrant story.
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Explosives sent to addresses linked to former Vice President Joe Biden and actor Robert De Niro were similar to bombs delivered to other political figures this week, officials said.
Why do great minds argue for positions we find repulsive? Today, we find out why Robert Nozick was a libertarian.
Leadership is accessible to each of us—today. It requires a process of hard work, willingness to ask questions, and openness to learning.
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Leadership is accessible to each of us—today. It requires a process of hard work, willingness to ask questions, and openness to learning.
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Leadership is accessible to each of us—today. It requires a process of hard work, willingness to ask questions, and openness to learning.
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Leadership is accessible to each of us—today. It requires a process of hard work, willingness to ask questions, and openness to learning.
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Leadership is accessible to each of us—today. It requires a process of hard work, willingness to ask questions, and openness to learning.
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Leadership is accessible to each of us—today. It requires a process of hard work, willingness to ask questions, and openness to learning.
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Contrary to popular belief, leadership really can be learned.
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The first woman to head a major North American pro sports union has made several major splashes in her first seven months on the job while exuding confidence every step of the way.
Instead of returning anger with anger, Robert Thurman advocates the practice of lovingkindness, a translation of the Pali word mettā that is found in the original Buddhist texts.
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Over a 22-year career at Goldman Sachs, Robert S. Kaplan had the opportunity to run various businesses and to work with or coach numerous business leaders. He says that successful leadership is less often about having all the answers—and more often about asking the right questions. In Part 1 of The Leadership Challenge, Kaplan explores three strategic key questions that leaders need to ask themselves.
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With Oscar Taveras on our minds, we remember another ballplayer who was taken much too young young. More than just a Hall of Fame outfielder, Roberto Clemente was a man committed to giving back. He died tragically at the age of 38 when a plane he chartered to deliver aid to earthquake-stricken Nicaragua crashed in the Caribbean Sea.
"Any time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don't, then you are wasting your time on Earth."
“For over 200 years the world has been set on fire by a revolutionary message. The message is that every individual human being is divine. That all of us despite […]
Roberto Mangabeira Unger offers an in-depth analysis of religion’s failed attempt at confronting the world. Unger is a philosopher and professor at Harvard Law School.
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“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” – Robert Frost
Find out how as we chat LIVE with Robert Greene at 1:30 PM Eastern on 8/7/2013
As artist Robert Williams grew up in his often dysfunctional, divorced home in the 1940s and 1950s, his mother wished he’d become a cowboy. After seeing Cecil B. DeMille’s 1935 […]
Keynes did not just diagnose the problem, he also posed a solution: government intervention.