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Bastianich, on how she plans a menu.

Lidia Bastianich talks about cultivating the joy of cooking in someone else.

It starts with the best that nature can give you.

Passion and dedication.

Lidia Bastianich recalls her culinary childhood in Istria.

Bastianich recalls post-war Istria and her move to the United States.

Bastianich wants to know how Gandhi got that inner peace.

It’s all about the right food, in the right amount, at the right time.

Bastianich sees the positive in humankind.

The world is looking to the U.S. for ideas.

The legacy of the Venetian spice trade.

For Bastianich, humanistic philosophy and food are intertwined.

Classical music and travel stimulate Bastianich’s creativity.

How do you teach someone to cook?

Bastianich, on the intricacies of cooking.

Growing up with rabbits, ducks and goats.

Peter Thiel predicts 30 years of chaos and turmoil followed by a period of unimaginable flourishing and prosperity.

Judaism today is a microcosm of the world: there are fundamentalists as well as those who see the state of Israel as an example grand peace and interdependence, as well […]

Steven Pinker see our greatest challenges as overcoming the obstacles to secular enlightenment in many parts of the world.

Synthesizing ideas really depends on having a universe of ideas to recombine in the first place, says Steven Pinker.

Cracking the almighty verb.

Language sheds light on the idea that the mind is a computational system.

People will always have a measure of self-deception.

Not all problems have to have a moralistic solution.

There’s no such thing as free will in the sense of a ghost in the machine; our behavior is the product of physical processes in the brain rather than some […]

Steven Pinker starts by asserting that using the word God or faith for that which you don’t know is a cop out. He goes on to describe what he sees […]

Steven Pinker talks about his personal philosophy and what reason means to him.

There’s so much of science and scholarship that consists of hyper specialized efforts, Steven Pinker says.

The Harvard psychologist on negotiating: the hothead wins.

The best-selling author of The Blank Slate argues human behavior is shaped by evolutionary psychological adaptations, not parental upbringing.