Calvin Trillin is always puzzled by financial decisions about writing.

Calvin Trillin’s most memorable journalism moment was his ride on the first Freedom Ride bus into Jackson, Mississippi.

Calvin Trillin fondly remembers how print journalism overcame its last big opponent, television, and wonders if it will be able to deal with the Internet in the same way.

Living in a Shipping Container doesn't sound like any fun at all until you see these renovated containers.

Gardening practices of to not too rightious soul

For anybody struggling through a period of creative stagnation and caught against some sort of Proustian desire to develop a grand ‘idea’ for their art, the Irish painter, Guggi, has […]

As if we needed it: More evidence that Asia’s leaving the US in the dust when it comes to the renewable energies and green tech we’ll need to survive tomorrow’s […]

What does over-consumption have to do with poverty? Is the economic divide rooted in Spiritual hunger? Here's an explanation of why the West consumes at such an immense level, and how we can begin to change things.

In the six days since I wrote here about the military government’s deadly crackdown in Guinea, international pressure has mounted. Richard Moncrieff, the West Africa project director for International Crisis […]

New research on governance can have non-traditional or controversial results. So boards often resist the academic or big-think suggestions. Boards say, "one size does not fit all", "it doesn’t apply to us", or "our board is not ready for such change." They are uncomfortable with the intrusion. Sticky topics are compensation, transparency and diversity. As economic and social researchers find new trends relating to governance, board traditions are challenged by social innovation.

Ok this is related to our current discussion of time in davids idea i felt it merits its own. Here is something that i have been chewing over. herbie said […]

Something doesn’t match up here. Obama was just awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, in part for integrating the American voice into the international climate conversation, yet the US is being […]

Josh Lieb, the executive producer of “The Daily Show,” visited Big Think to talk about his first novel, “I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be […]

President Obama is now the just third sitting president to win the Nobel Peace Prize—the first since Woodrow Wilson won in 1919 for his role in setting up the League […]

I'm not shedding any tears over the tough financial times facing the nation's higher education system.

John Bruton, the EU Ambassador to the United States, has an uncommon combination of outsider’s and insider’s insight into how the U.S. government works.   He talked to Big Think about […]

I understand why Americans love lists. It jives with our competitive ethos, not to mention our Trump-like love of superlatives. Ours is a culture of Top Ten Lists, Best-Of Issues, […]

Surprise! As if expectations weren’t high enough for the new American president, Barack Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize after nine months in office, and all without achieving […]

EU Ambassador and former Irish PM John Bruton explains what the successful Lisbon Treaty referendum spells for Ireland.