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Joyce Vance: Giving Up is Unforgivable
Is this the beginning of a countermovement to Project 2025?
Join us as legal expert Joyce Vance diagnoses our country’s democratic ills and offers a prescription of citizen action as a cure. Vance’s m…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Philip Taubman and William Taubman: McNamara at War
Robert S. McNamara was widely considered to be one of the most brilliant men of his generation. He was an invaluable ally of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson as their secretary of def…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
When Climate Work Comes at a Cost: Dispatches From the Upside Down
Human-caused climate change is fueling extreme floods, wildfires, rising seas, and record-breaking heat all around the world. At the same time, some of the most senior U.S. government officials and o…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Innovative Financing for Innovative Impact: The Future of Humanitarian Assistance
This year marked the steepest retreat to foreign assistance in recent memory, and the human cost is staggering. Global needs are growing more complex under the weight of today’s crises, while the aid…
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Start in Your Own Backyard: Transforming Where We Live with Radical Common Sense
Steve Nygren is the founder and CEO of Serenbe, a wellness community created as a model to demonstrate that preserving green space interlaced with agriculture, housing and retail is not only economic…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Why Higher Ed Should Stand up to Trump, with Michael Roth
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Mary Roach: Adventures in Human Anatomy
The human body is invincible—at least from the perspective of modern medicinal innovation. Mary Roach, New York Times bestselling author of Stiff and Fuzz, follows the astonishing evolution of body p…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Adaptation: When Prevention Isn’t Enough
So much of the conversation about the climate crisis focuses on prevention. But no matter how well we succeed on that front, climate-induced disasters are already causing hundreds of billions of doll…
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Steven Pinker: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows
What’s common about common knowledge, and how does it become common? Common knowledge—the awareness of how others think and even how others think others think—is needed for social coordination, thing…
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Edward Frenkel—Back to the Roots: How Do We Revive Pythagorean Tradition in the Age of AI?
Historian Charles H. Kahn wrote that Pythagorean contributions to Western thought were "on the one hand, a mathematical understanding of the world of nature; and, on the other hand, a conception of h…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago