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The Risks of Innovation
What do we stand to lose when we innovate?
Science & Technology
The Risks of Innovation
What do we stand to lose when we innovate?
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Art
The Asian Art Market's a-Booming
Museum director Melissa Chiu and auction house chair Simon de Pury discuss the booming market.
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Healthcare
Is the U.S. Health care System Broken?
Big Think polled a range of top thinkers who arrived at a striking consensus...
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Faith & Beliefs
Are science and religion compatible?
Tolerant Evangelizing?
How should the Bible be interpreted?
Rick Warren: The Purpose Driven Pastor
Identity
Born in Iran
A Manly Man
A Life After Death: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Seeing Double
Inspiration
How do poets compose?
The Poets' Poets
Creative Process
My First Science Experiment
Life & Death
Retiring Before 35
A Poet Watching Time Pass
Facing Death in War
The Right to Die
Love & Happiness
What is love?
Should We Be More French?
Untying the Gay Marriage Knot
Why Love Matters
Outlook & the Future
What is the legacy of George W. Bush?
See You On Mars
What's the forecast?
The End of Aging
Truth & Justice
Globalization of the Law
Dissents from the Bench
What is torture?
Do human rights exist in China?
Wisdom
Words of Wisdom
Ask Yourself
Arts & Culture
The Globalization of Art
Do Americans read enough poetry?
James Zemaitis: On the Auction Block
Do you speak Irish?
Business & Economics
The Recession and the Restaurant
Alan Greenspan and Cheap Money
Teaching Outside the Box
Argyle Executive Forum
History
The Pioneering Spirit
Remembering Post-War Italy
What would the Founding Fathers think?
What is human nature?
Media & the Press
The Media Today
Are bloggers journalists?
Can newspapers hobble on?
Writer's Bloc: The Shocking Conclusion!
Philanthropy
The $100 Billion Question
Was Robin Hood right?
Policy & Politics
Was NAFTA a good idea?
Is Health Care a Public Good?
Why are you a libertarian?
Technology and Politics
Rest & Diversions
Fighting the Procrastinating Demons
What is Big Think?
The Rise of Food TV
Rob Huebel: One Funny Guy
Science & Technology
The Risks of Innovation
Changing Our Understanding of Multiple Dimensions
Politics 2.0
Is climate change a human rights issue?
The World
What are today's big issues?
Making The World's Markets Better
Parag Khanna and the Second World
The Coming Resource Wars
CATEGORIES
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10 QUESTIONS
This week, BigThink is exploring the Next American Experience. To do that, we asked our experts to look both forward and back. Here's some ideas to get you started.
1 | David McCullough - Historian; Author
Re: Do Americans misunderstand the Founding Fathers?
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2 | Melissa Harris Lacewell - Professor, Princeton University
Re: What is the state of democracy in the United States?
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3 | David Kennedy - Professor of History, Stanford University
Participating in Our Democracy
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4 | C.K. Williams - Poet
Poetry and the Iraq War
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5 | Nadine Strossen - President, ACLU
Re: What should Americans be most concerned about?
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6 | Howard Zinn - Historian
Howard Zinn on Democracy in America
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7 | Michael Eric Dyson - Professor, Georgetown University; Author
Michael Eric Dyson: An Accurate American History
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8 | Stephen Carter - Professor, Yale Law School; Novelist
Re: What is democracy?
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9 | Jon Meacham - Editor, Newsweek
Re: What forces have shaped America most?
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10 | Jim Lehrer - Journalist; Anchor, The NewsHour (PBS)
America's Place in the World
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