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Rachel Solomon

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    Inside The Teenage Brain With Daniel Siegel

    The teenage brain can be a mystery to adults. UCLA psychiatry professor Daniel Siegel debunks myths about adolescence to show how teens learn new skills...
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    Dave Isay On The 'Ties That Bind'

    Ten years ago, Dave Isay began StoryCorps by building a soundproof booth in Grand Central Terminal. People arrived in pairs to interview each other...

  • Fifty Years After ‘Eichmann In Jerusalem’ With Seyla Benhabib

    In 1963, one of the most controversial books of the twentieth century was published. “Eichmann in Jerusalem” presented Adolf Eichmann not as a sociopath, but as an ordinary person who simply believed his actions were normal. The author of this book, political theorist Hannah Arendt, refers to this theory as the “banality of evil.” Arendt was a Jew who fled Germany in the early 1930s.

  • Fifty Years After ‘Eichmann In Jerusalem’ With Seyla Benhabib

    In 1963, one of the most controversial books of the twentieth century was published. “Eichmann in Jerusalem” presented Adolf Eichmann not as a sociopath — but as an ordinary person who simply believed his actions were normal. The author of this book, political theorist Hannah Arendt, refers to this theory as the “banality of evil.” Arendt was a Jew who fled Germany in the early 1930s.

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    Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?

    As humans, we’re designed to work together with certain groups of people while fighting off others. In modern times though, our tribes have been forced...