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BPR Interviews: Elaine Sheldon
Elaine Sheldon is an American filmmaker who centers much of her work around the opioid crisis. Her documentary “Heroin(e)” was nominated...
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Feb 24, 20208 min read


BPR Interviews: Jason Crawford on Studying Human Progress
Jason Crawford is an entrepreneur and writer. He is a leader in the incipient field of Progress Studies. He blogs at The Roots of...
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Feb 23, 202015 min read


BPR Interviews: Ambassador Gerónimo Gutiérrez Fernández
Ambassador Gerónimo Gutiérrez Fernández served as the Mexican Ambassador to the United States from 2017-2018. He is a believer in...
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Feb 22, 20204 min read


BPR Interviews: Patrisse Cullors
Patrisse Cullors is an artist-activist and co-founder of Black Lives Matter. She was named one of Fortune’s World’s Greatest Leaders,...
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Feb 19, 20209 min read


BPR Interviews: The Telah Foundation
Founded in 1974, Heaven’s Gate was a millenarian cult based near San Diego, California. On March 26, 1997, members of the San Diego...
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Feb 12, 20203 min read


Five Letters, One Man: BPR Interviews YONAS
Yonas Mellesse, better known to fans around the world under mononym YONAS, is a leading independent hip-hop artist. Growing up in the...
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Jan 31, 202011 min read


BPR Interviews: Bobby Henline
Bobby Henline is a standup comedian and retired military Staff Sergeant who served four tours in Iraq. More than ten years after...
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Jan 28, 202019 min read


BPR Interviews: Schuyler Bailar
As part of the Harvard men’s swim team for all four years of college, Schuyler Bailar is the first transgender athlete to compete in any...
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Jan 21, 202014 min read


BPR Interviews: Alan Dershowitz
Alan Dershowitz is a constitutional and criminal attorney. He taught at Harvard Law School, entering as the youngest professor in its...
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Jan 20, 202010 min read


BPR Interviews: Ted Kooser
Ted Kooser is a native of the Midwest and served as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004 to 2006....
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Jan 17, 20203 min read


BPR Interviews: Jane Ginsburg on Technology and Copyright
As the Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law at Columbia Law School, Jane Ginsburg specializes in legal...
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Jan 12, 20206 min read


BPR Interviews: Matthew Perault
Matt Perault ‘02 is the director of the Center for Science & Technology Policy at Duke University and an Associate Professor of the...
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Dec 26, 20196 min read


BPR Interviews: Marianne Williamson on Politics and Souls
Marianne Williamson is a bestselling author, activist, spiritual leader, and a candidate for the 2020 Democratic Nomination. Nick: I’m...
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Nov 25, 201918 min read


BPR Interviews: Anton Howes on the Industrial Revolution
Anton Howes is an economic historian studying the industrial revolution. He is currently the in-house historian at the Royal Society for...
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Nov 21, 201919 min read


BPR Interviews: Ellen Malcolm
Ellen Malcolm is the founder of EMILY’s List, a political action committee that helps elect pro-choice Democratic women. Now serving as...
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Nov 21, 20198 min read


BPR Interviews: Greg Shill on the Dominance of the Car
Gregory H. Shill is a law professor at the University of Iowa College of Law. His recent work, including Should Law Subsidize Driving?...
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Nov 19, 201910 min read


BPR Interviews: Julie K. Brown on Exposing Epstein
Julie K Brown is an award-winning Investigative Journalist at the Miami Herald. She is best known for her work uncovering Jeffery...
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Nov 11, 201910 min read


BPR Interviews: Anita Fábos
Anita Häusermann Fábos is a Professor of International Development and Social Change at Clark University. She is also the former Director...
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Nov 10, 20199 min read


BPR Interviews: Godfrey Reggio on Death and Progress
Godfrey Reggio is a contemporary documentary filmmaker who has for decades pioneered a distinct experiential film style. Born in New...
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Nov 7, 20196 min read


BPR Interviews: Jeffrey Miron Talks Drugs
Dr. Jeffrey Miron is a senior lecturer and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He is...
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Nov 6, 201911 min read
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