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Dershowitz wishes academics would go back to first principles.
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Everybody should be subject to one standard, Alan Dershowitz says.
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Homo sapiens are more used to living without the law than with the law.
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Alan Dershowitz discusses growing up Jewish in America during the period of the second World War.
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Give people more of a stake in the success of the global economy.
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Things would look a lot rosier if people with big ideas went into politics.
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The myth of the hereafter, Alan Dershowitz says, is one of the worst ideas humans have ever created.
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Dershowitz finds his inspiration anywhere and everywhere he can.
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Dershowitz hopes he has filled in some jurisprudential black holes in his career.
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Billy Collins reads his poem, “Questions About Angels.”
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A musician of sorts.
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First, a nice car, then we think of others.
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America needs to find a new way of thinking.
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We should be over war by now.
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One’s faith can survive a split between theology and iconography.
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The poet is just as responsible for a small audience.
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Coleridge’s “Conversation” poems inspire much of Collins’ work.
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Asking, what does the poem mean? kills the poem, Collins says.
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Each poem is a journey, and the reader is meant to come along.
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Everything flows from death.
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Getting writers to talk about their writing is harder than you think.
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Billy Collins, on his fraught relationship with his teachers.
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Walking down the street is like a night at the opera, Collins says.
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