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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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Growing up in a Sikh-American family, the business professor became fascinated with decisions. As she gradually grew blind, she wondered how much her own choices would be diminished.
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A conversation with the Columbia Business School professor.
The Catholic Church will be “a different color” in 40 years. And there will likely be female priests.
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This priest advises to stop “shoulding” all over yourself.
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It’s dangerous to be spiritual without being religious, and vice versa.
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Why the television host’s recent comment betrayed a fundamental misunderstanding of the gospel.
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The Church’s sex scandal has nothing to do with celibacy and everything to do with a “culture of secrecy” that put the Church’s public image first.
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Anti-Catholicism is not as bad as some other prejudices are in our culture, but it is present.
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As one of the show’s regulars, the priest talks about what it’s like behind the scenes.
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What it’s like to make the switch from the Wall Street Journal to the Bible.
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The Jesuit priest talks about what it’s like to lead a life of poverty and celibacy.
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A conversation with the Jesuit priest and author of “The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything.”
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The author says he wishes people would just take more responsibility for their own food consumption and cook food at home more often.
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The author stays up trying to figuring out where to position her writing desk, and solves many of her fictional questions in her sleep.
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Another problem with the U.S. healthcare system: dying shouldn’t be thought of as a war.
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The bestselling author learned a lesson when she based characters in a novel on members of her family.
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While there is value to graduate writing degrees, so many of the young writers encouraged by their MFA professors aren’t going to make it. This leaves Shriver uneasy.
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If you speak too much to the immediate moment, it’s already moved on by the time your book is published.
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The author’s impulse to write stems from her feelings of social incompetence.
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Lionel Shriver’s career began after winning a writing contest about her school’s newly renovated cafeteria.