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A live Q&A on the financial crisis with Newsweek's Daniel Gross and Wisconsin B-School Dean Mike Knetter.
Following the resounding success of last week's "Can Monopolies Save the Internet?" webcast from Harvard Law School's Berkman Center, Big Think, in collaboration with the Wisconsin School of Business, will […]
It's April 20th, known the world over as International Pot Smoking Day. If you're reading this you're probably not stoned. Although given the increasingly numerous reasons to be stoned, you […]
One outstanding task on the global conversation to-do list is how to communicate across languages on all our various new media. Now, a linguistic brain trust at MIT has stepped […]
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Edward Crane on the virtues of selfishness
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Duke University Professor Arlie Petters on how to detect a fourth dimension.
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The Cato Institute CEO on changes to improve the U.S. economy.
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The Cato Institute CEO walks us through the modern conservative movement.
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The Cato Institute CEO talks about the forces that shape humanity.
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Edward Crane on why government should stay out of the health business.
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The Cato Institute CEO on the meaning of personal liberty.
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The Cato Institute CEO says the problem in Washington is we have "an adverse selection process for who runs for Congress."
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The Cato Institute CEO on why America needs more than two parties.
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The Cato Institute CEO talks about the libertarian think tank.
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The Cato Institute CEO remembers reading Barry Goldwater’s Conscious of a Conservative.
Yesterday, Obama met his first stage of exchanging ideas with 34 leaders of Latin American and Caribbean (Conference in Trinidad and Tobago)
Until some mad genetic engineer with a cache of tropical real estate makes Jurassic Park a reality, the details of the lives of dinosaurs beyond what fossils and fossilized footprints […]
This article, from 2009, laments the lack of popular US protest movements at the time. What would the author say now?
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The prospects for a peaceful Islam are not realistic in the short term.
In a move that many media analysts say was inevitable, The New York Times has decided to pare down its weekly content. Sections with regional and niche appeal will be […]