The Latest from Big Think

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Media failed us in the lead up to the Iraq War.
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Not broken but not working as well as it should.
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Democracy is essentially a good thing for the world.
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America's obligation to protect other countries and vice versa.
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The challenges of imposing intellectual order on human actions.
A word from the poet on his hopeless optimism.
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We should be over war, Collins says.
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If we start doing something about climate change now, it'll be a lot different from starting five years from now.
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What's happening now is tribalism.
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Artists are just people who somehow didn't allow that natural ability in childhood to be killed off.
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A poet is not terribly unhappy that poetry has a small audience.
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"When you're not writing, there's an anxiety about whether you will ever write again," says Collins.
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The joy in writing poetry is being down on your hands and knees with the language.