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On reconciling Bach and the Holocaust.

Harbison’s interest in history keeps him from being fully optimistic.

Sometimes just sitting down and knocking out a cord on the piano can be enough.

Harbison strives to create a tenacious afterimage.

Harbison never thought he’d have any interest in doing anything but music.

Harbison lives with, amid and around music.

Our capacity for reason empowers us to overcome the bad side of our characters.

It is the ability and willingness to reconsider your beliefs.

The will of the husband is absolute except when he asks you to forsake Allah, says Hirsi Ali.

The death threats have made daily life more meaningful.

Faith and reason, Meacham says, are not incompatible.

Hirsi Ali puts her faith in the young Muslims who are open to Western ideas.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Iran and the nuclear problem.

What goes into a magazine?

The digital revolution, Meacham says, has been liberating for print.

Journalists write history before it is history.

Hirsi Ali recalls the promise of African liberation and the disappointment of backsliding.

Hirsi Ali remembers Sister Aziza, who introduced her to extremist aspects of Islam.

What three values are you willing to die for?

We must make a distinction between Muslims and Islam, says Hirsi Ali.

Hirsi Ali rejects the European tendency toward pessimism.

Breyer on Public Influence

Justice Breyer on interpreting the law.

Fundamentalism arises from a rejection of information.

Are you willing to die for your own ideas of freedom as much as the fanatics are willing to die for their own?

Mossberg talks about capitalism’s impact on technology. He argues that in spite of capitalism’s imperfections, it has served as one of the greatest drivers of technological change and innovation.

Venture capital is already flowing to new, greener projects.

The reason Silicon Valley is Silicon Valley is Stanford.

Is technology shifting the geopolitical balance?

Never have people had so much access to so much information.