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Anna Deavere Smith on the nobility of struggle
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At the core of today’s big issues, Anna Deavere Smith says, is the question of justice.
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Anna Deavere Smith on the balance between the gifts of nature, and their just distribution.
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Anna Deavere Smith wants to know: what is the gap between understanding and action?
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Anna Deavere Smith takes her cues from Shakespeare’s wordsmithing.
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Anna Deavere Smith talks about storytelling and the importance of theater in the community.
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Harvard happiness guru Dan Gilbert delivers his pessimistic forecast.
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Gilbert wonders which issues will still matter in a hundred years.
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Anna Deavere Smith talks about acting and how she uses language as a guide to identity.
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The tug of war between science and religion helps define us, Gilbert says.
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Anna Deavere Smith recalls her childhood in segregated Baltimore, and how she found her way out West and into the theater.
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Since Gilbert’s personal philosophy is a blank slate waiting for scientific building blocks.
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Gilbert has no shortage of inspiration, though most of his work comes out of banging heads with his collaborator.
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Gilbert talks about why we’re so bad at predicting what makes us happy.
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Lee Hamilton was very lucky to have run for Congress as a Democrat in 1964.
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Hamilton discusses the problems America faces as a bigger and more diverse place than the America he grew up in.