Daniel Schmachtenberger on the Dire Need for an Open Society

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Rebecca Solnit on Slowness as a Superpower

Rebecca Solnit, the author of books including “A Paradise Built in Hell” (2009) and “Orwell’s Roses” (2021) and the co-editor of the new collection of essays “Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility,” discusses the long view as a “mind-blowing” way of ...  Show more

Charlayne Hunter-Gault on History as a Compass for Navigating the Present

The civil rights activist, award-winning journalist, and former NPR and CNN foreign correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault talks about her book “My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives”; why understanding history is like a form of armor in a world full of misinformatio ...  Show more

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