Darwin: 200 Years Later
Adam Gopnik, author of "Angels & Ages, A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln and Modern Life" and Steven Pinker, author of "The Blank Slate" discuss Ida, evolution and Charles Darwin's legacy with the...
Pardon Our French
Sara Nelson is a critic for The Daily Beast and the former editor in chief of Publishers Weekly. She is the author of the bestselling So Many Books, So Little Time.
Sara Nelson says a conversation between Adam Gopnik and a bestselling French novelist at the PEN World Voices Festival was a dream for Francophiles who had the chance to soak in an evening about French literature-in French.
Best Moments from the Updike Tribute
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The great writer's friends, family, and colleagues convened this week at the New York Public Library to pay tribute. The Daily Beast presents the highlights from the speakers.
The Evolution of Darwin and Lincoln
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Four score and 120 years ago, two revolutionary thinkers were born on the same day, a world apart. The Daily Beast talked to Adam Gopnik, author of a new dual biography, Angels and Ages, about why they're still so influential, what Obama has learned from them, and who wrote the better beach read.
Kill the Media Zombies
Tina Brown is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. She is the author of the 2007 New York Times best seller The Diana Chronicles. Brown is the former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Talk magazines and host of CNBC's Topic A with Tina Brown.
The great media companies are laying off employees by the truckload. They ought to start with the feckless bureaucrats who are running the place.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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