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‘The Greeks said know thyself’—David Dunning on the psychology and humanity of blind spots

About the guest Professor David Dunning is the Mary Ann and Charles R. Walgreen Jr. Professor of the Study of Human Understanding, professor of psychology, an associate

‘Repair, correct, improve, adapt, update, those are good ideas’—Jill Lepore on amending the Constitution

About the guest Professor Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She i

‘Empathy in leadership is not some soft, touchy-feely kind of thing—it is an essential attribute of building trust’—James Mattis on leadership

About the guest James N. Mattis is currently the Davies Family Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University where he lectures and writes on dome

‘Weather is your mood and climate is your personality’—J. Marshall Shepherd on public intellectualism and getting out the facts

About the guest Dr. J. Marshall Shepherd is a leading international expert in weather and climate and is the Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor of Geog

‘Folk music was the dominant carrier of cultural commentary for a long time’—Rhiannon Giddens on reckoning with history through music

About the guest Rhiannon Giddens co-founded the Grammy Award-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, and she has been nominated for six additional Grammys for her work as a so

‘The country was my patient’—Anthony Fauci on leading in crisis and navigating the West Wing

About the guest Anthony S. Fauci is a physician-scientist and immunologist who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID