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Don Quixote and others.

If you come up with an easy solution to the text, you’re probably close to the wrong thing.

How to get that “Aha!” moment.

Gomes has a question he thinks talented people should ask themselves.

You think you’re Job? Get off it.

To be hopeful is to be ultimately realistic in the face of every reason for despair.

Why is America’s youth turning to religion?

Jim Lehrer explains his lifelong love for the work of J.D. Salinger, and describes what he would ask in a dream interview with the literary legend.

Lehrer says we should actually act on our pledges to improve education.

We are driven by a search for value and meaning.

Gomes believes we live in a fallen world.

Unlike the America of his childhood, the country no longer has a shared experience to draw upon.

Gomes serves the Word.

Peter Gomes says he would like to be remembered as a man who made others think.

As an American, Jim Lehrer is worried about what is done in his name.

Peter Gomes is a preacher who teaches, as opposed to a teacher who preaches.

If we’d had a mandatory military service, Lehrer wonders, would we still have invaded Iraq?

Gomes describes his “Afro-Saxon” upbringing.

Lehrer, on Americans’ lack of cohesion.

Jim Lehrer talks about duty, shared experience, and what it means to serves one’s country.

Jim Lehrer writes about people fighting like hell to be successful.

Jim Lehrer, on why and how he writes.

Jim Lehrer talks about what goes into a broadcast, or a novel.

Jim Lehrer reflects on the impact of Ms. Litton.

A couple of athletes and Nelson Mandela.

Who do you blame?

If our talents are distributed randomly, how do we use them fairly?

Studying Shakespeare has given Anna Deavere Smith a deeper understanding of language and character.

Anna Deavere Smith discusses the state of American theater and the lack of diversity both on stage and in the audience.

Listening is the key to Anna Deavere Smith’s creative process.