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Not much of substance has been said on either side, says Hackett.

For better or for worse, we’ve built an economy based on extracting fossil fuels, Hackett says.

The challenge of making everyone buy in.

What does Andarko Petroleum do?

Rob Riemen makes his case for Nietzsche.

Use the Socratic method on yourself, Riemen says.

Riemen frames contemporary life and the values that construct our society.

Riemen invokes Indiana Jones to explain his personal philosophy of life.

The ability of a great man to change his mind.

Rob Riemen emphasizes the roots of democracy as first articulated by the Greeks.

Riemen hopes to raise essential questions about the quality of information, in some small way, restore meaning to language.

The most essential things in life are beyond definition, Riemen says.

The constancy of fragility.

Riemen heads the Nexus Institute, a place to discuss life’s big questions.

Rob Riemen explains the formative influence of Thomas Mann.

Veering down the track like a girl veering down a cobbled street in the meat-packing district, high heels from the night before, black shawl of black-tipped hairs…

When the master was calling the roll At the primary school in Collegelands, You were meant to call back Anseo And raise your hand As your name occurred..

Muldoon tells us about “Rackett.”

It takes Muldoon ages to write a sentence.

Stop immediately.

Muldoon recommends Michael Dickman and Kathleen Graber, among others.

Muldoon believes that a great poem can come out of nowhere.

We are tiny little organisms that, if we are lucky, says Muldoon, “might have half dozen obsessions on which we can draw.”

Repetition is just as important in politics as it is in poetry, Muldoon says.

“Why don’t you write some ordinary poems that the rest of us can understand,” someone wrote to Muldoon.

It’s at the heart of his poetry, and Muldoon tells us of the best metaphors he’s come up with of late.

Everything from Irish song to Yevgeny Evtushenko.

Muldoon talks about how meeting the great poet Seamus Heaney.

Spain? Portugal? Holland?

America has taken women’s soccer seriously for quite some time, Conrad says.