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Freedom according to Peter Beinart.

A not so formidable foe.

Democracy is essentially a good thing for the world.

America’s obligation to protect other countries and vice versa.

The challenges of imposing intellectual order on human actions.

By our technology or our behavior?

A word from the poet on his hopeless optimism.

We should be over war, Collins says.

If we start doing something about climate change now, it’ll be a lot different from starting five years from now.

What’s happening now is tribalism.

A haiku is like smashing an atom.

Artists are just people who somehow didn’t allow that natural ability in childhood to be killed off.

A poet is not terribly unhappy that poetry has a small audience.

Colins’ poetry is “readable.”

“When you’re not writing, there’s an anxiety about whether you will ever write again,” says Collins.

The joy in writing poetry is being down on your hands and knees with the language.

Collins’ childhood was filled with poetry and practical jokes.

The late Senator Ted Kennedy discussed an education bill that would forgive students loans up to $20,000 in exchange for community involvement.

We want to try and free ourselves from the forms of discrimination and bigotry which exist in our nation, says Ted Kennedy.

Two driving forces are behind Kennedy: family and religion.

A tough mother, and a rabbinical student.

Time, Rabbi Shmuley says, will be kind to us.

Rabbi Shmuley has made it his life’s work to fight divorce.

Rabbi Shmuley prefers authenticity to perfection in a presidential candidate.

Boteach sees Iraq as an act of altruism.

Boteach, on the need to temper masculinity.

A balanced life is a good life.

Rabbi Shmuley believes in humility.

Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus.

Rabbi Shmuley, on really liberating female potential.