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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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Robert Skidelsky appointed to the British Parliament to advise the Queen on matters of high policy, discusses the psychological adjustment America might need to make as it’s superseded by China.
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We’re getting wealthy at the rate that the great economist predicted, but there’s a reason why haven’t we traded more consumption for leisure.
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We can’t point the finger at politicians and regulators for this crisis; they never have any ideas of their own, says Lord Robert Skidelsky.
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Robert Skidelsky compares the psychological motivations of savers and investors in the last few years.
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The author of “Keynes: The Return of the Master” says we can attribute the 2008 stimulus package to the great economist.
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A conversation with the author of “Keynes: The Return of the Master”
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Duke University Professor David Schanzer says President Obama has largely maintained the Bush administration’s anti-terrorism tactics and personnel.
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Communities that allow self-expression will gain an entrepreneurial edge.
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Companies need to provide something more than a cool work environment to attract the new creative class.
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Mass-production institutions have been broken for a generation now. Why doesn’t anyone want to fix them?
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Why the local programs and approaches developed by Mayors Michael Bloomberg and Cory Booker should be models for the rest of the world.
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The theorist of the “creative class” explains how the economic crisis has provided an “inflection point” that will generate a new class of thinkers.
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Our challenge is to improve the quality of service workers, says Richard Florida. Only then will we elevate jobs and create livelihoods for people.
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From hostile physicists to commenters who think they know more about string theory than Nobel laureates, Peter Woit describes the weird world of science blogging.
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Peter Woit believes that mathematicians and scientists are led astray by seeking “elegant” solutions. But there is one theorem that makes him wax poetic.
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Physics is as vulnerable to fads and politics as other disciplines. Math avoids the same fate by being content to stay “completely useless.”
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Peter Woit explains the “deep relation” between the two disciplines and the most mind-bending new ways in which that relation is being explored.
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What is the elusive particle that scientists hope the Large Hadron Collider will shed light on? Why does it matter? And what about those black hole rumors?
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The “Not Even Wrong” author explains one of physics’ most famous theories—and why it may have led thousands of scientists down a cold trail.
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A conversation with the mathematical physicist at Columbia University.