Word: bigthink
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...think tank—where ideas get exchanged all the time—online, where it’s not limited by a certain type of politics or certain realm of content,” said co-founder Peter L. Hopkins ’04. The idea for BigThink emerged when Hopkins and Business School graduate Victoria R. Brown were both producers on PBS’ “The Charlie Rose Show,” Hopkins said. The two saw the need for an online forum for exchanging content about a wide range of topics. They decided to create...
...course, politicians have always been willing to go on the record as firmly pro-morality. But seldom have they done it so relentlessly. And seldom have they had such a wellspring of bigthink to draw on. There's Ben Wattenberg's Values Matter Most, read and admired by Clinton. There's "the politics of meaning," a phrase Hillary Rodham Clinton borrowed from philosopher Michael Lerner, creating a brief buzz that inspired him to make it the title of a recent book. There's Gertrude Himmelfarb's jeremiad The De-Moralization of Society, championed by Newt Gingrich. And there's former...
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