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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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Josh Ritter can’t complain about today’s recording industry: the concerts are improving and some lesser-known artists are doing great work.
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The developer of the first portable cellular telephone discovered that he wanted to be an engineer when he was just four years old. His homemade magnifying glass sparked a career […]
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The pioneering HIV/AIDS researcher used high school math in creating a drug “cocktail” to combat the worldwide epidemic.
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The mathematical physicist reflects upon his untraditional math and science education in Belize, and talks about how Einstein’s theory of relativity is a “profound connection” that can inspire young people.
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The U.S. is now incarcerating on a level so out of sync with it’s own history—and with what other industrial democracies are doing—that the system is bound to change.
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Sexual victimization in prison now has come to constitute a significant portion of that in society as a whole.
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The massive rise in the prison population isn’t one of the primary reasons that crime has decreased.
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We once hoped criminals would come out of prison better than they had entered. Not anymore.
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Looking carefully at the history of Texas makes us rethink the history of crime and punishment and incarceration in the country as a whole.
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Our skyrocketing incarceration rates are less related to crime than to racial politics, tough-on-crime rhetoric and for-profit prisons.
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African-Americans are imprisoned at seven times the rate of whites. Intentional discrimination is a factor in this—as are poverty, educational attainment, urban density, and white flight from urban centers.
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A conversation with the author of “Texas Tough: The Rise of a Prison Empire.”
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Connecting with fans is an amazing experience. But do musicians really need to maintain that connection 24/7 online?
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From the politically charged songs of “The Animal Years” to the more playful narrative style of his new album, the singer has consciously avoided repeating the “same old act.”
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Avoiding the dreaded “girl/world” rhyme, and other songwriting tips.
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Guitar isn’t “stuck in a canon”: it lets each musician express a unique voice. Succeeding at it means insisting on that voice with absolute confidence.
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Josh Ritter had an epiphany while studying organic chemistry in college: he was meant to be a musician, not a scientist.