Faisal Saeed Al Mutar: Iraq, 20 Years After the Fall of Baghdad
The Center - “There is a lot of hope. Every time I go there and meet with the new generation, I think that they definitely want for their country to be a successful one. And that’s the conversation in Iraq. Most people have now forgotten about the war.” 5/12/2023

Death Is Not Inevitable: Sitting Down with Zoltan Istvan
The Center - “I’d be very surprised if a super intelligent AI a thousand years from now cannot recreate everything. Also, like so many other people, including Elon, I believe there’s probably a 50% chance we’re in a simulation. So, that would defeat the idea of death as well.” 4/28/2023

Tabia Lee: What Happened at De Anza College
The Center - “There [are] ways to teach about the past that are humanistic; that are agency-focused; and that are focused on generative things rather than destructive things—rather than dismantling things and tearing things down with no plan forward of what happens after the destruction.” 4/18/2023

John Cribb: What We Can Learn from Abraham Lincoln
The Center - “All of the sudden, I was on the phone with Mike Pence… ‘I just finished Old Abe last night, and I had to track you down and tell you how much I loved it, and it’s the best book about Lincoln I’ve ever read.’ And, for ten minutes, he just wanted to talk about Lincoln.” 3/18/2023

Lance Morrow: “The Noise of Typewriters”
The Center - “You could read my book…as a kind of homage to the magazine.” 2/12/2023

Mary Harrington: On a Philosophy of Limits
The Right - “And my argument is that freedom and progress in the context of the cyborg era are actually inimical to women’s interests. They don’t make things better for any women, except [for] a very small, elite subset.” 12/7/2022

William Jacobson: What Happened to Campus?
The Right - “I’m not optimistic at all that campuses can be reformed. They certainly cannot be reformed from within…Academia is gone. It is a monoculture. It is a hermetically sealed bubble.” 11/14/2022

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb: The Activist Class Takes Aim at Medicine
The Center - “It’s career ending, really…Anybody who tries to [speak out] will be shunned.” 10/5/2022

Heather Mac Donald: Medicine Under Fire
The Right - “Scientific conferences are being determined based on sex and race. It’s going to slow down medical progress, and it is also going to put physicians in the ER and the operating room who are not the top qualified.” 9/27/2022

No Longer Running: An Interview with Felicia Heath
The Center - “And, later in life, when I was dealing with my father coming out of prison and perhaps rekindling that relationship, I started to look at my experience slightly differently. I started sharing bits and pieces of my story with people and, to my surprise, found that some of the reactions were positive and even inspiring.” 9/13/2022

Interview: Brad Lips, CEO of Atlas Network
The Right - “Any coherent system of morality begins with an appreciation of human dignity and wanting people to have as many choices to take control of their lives as possible.” 8/11/2022

Holmesburg: Calling for an Apology from the City of Philadelphia
The Left - “My father’s skin is in those pharmaceutical companies.” 8/3/2022

Yoram Hazony: National Conservatism in a Midterm Year
The Right - “Conservatives are certainly not socialists. Conservatives do not believe, as the Marxists do, that you can open up some central office with really bright people and dictate the course of the entire economy of the nation. We don’t believe anything like that. On the other hand…” 7/29/2022

NBC New York’s Jen Maxfield: Telling the Rest of the Story
The Center - “Sometimes, I would even dream about some of the people I had interviewed on the stories. And, so through the years, I had the idea to write a book and put it all together and try to return to some of the stories.” 7/22/2022

Stephen Hicks: Challenges in Contemporary Education
The Center - “The ten out of a thousand entrepreneurial ideas that are amazing—we’ll find out what those are. And they will be the ones that dominate [in] the next generation.” 7/19/2022

Will Marshall: Where Are the Moderates?
The Center - “I don’t see a full, vigorous pivot by this President (and this White House) back toward the themes and approaches that Joe Biden articulated in his 2020 presidential race.” 7/6/2022
