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What’s the Big Idea?

For the 10th-anniversary issue of <I>The Chronicle Review,</I> we asked scholars and illustrators to answer this question: What will be the defining idea of the coming decade, and why?

September 2, 2010

Jaron Lanier

Daniel J. Solove

Peter Singer

Elaine Howard Ecklund

Gwenda Kaczor

Jonathan Haidt

Parker J. Palmer

Camille Paglia

Yi-Fu Tuan

Michael Glenwood Gibbs

Daniel J. Cohen

James Elkins

Mary Beard

Linda K. Kerber

Geoffrey Moss

Henry Petroski

Alondra Nelson

Brian Knutson

Saleem H. Ali

Steve Brodner

Stephon H.S. Alexander

Steven Landsburg

Pat Shipman

The End of Human Specialness

Dizzied by Data

The Internet Will Set You Free

Abandoning Disciplines

Head in the Clouds

Fast Evolution

Humility, Chutzpah, and the Future of Democracy

Revalorizing the Trades

A New Cosmopolitanism

Extinction of the Middle Class

The Maddening Crowd

New World, New Art

The Dark Ages—or, Rather, How to Prevent Them

Equity for Women—Still

How Now … ?

Declining Infrastructure, Declining Civilization

The Social Life of DNA

The Objective Study of Subjectivity

Elemental Accounting

The Vision

Soul Science

Putting Ideas to Work

Enough Already!

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Jaron Lanier

Daniel J. Solove

Peter Singer

Elaine Howard Ecklund

Gwenda Kaczor

Jonathan Haidt

Parker J. Palmer

Camille Paglia

Yi-Fu Tuan

Michael Glenwood Gibbs

Daniel J. Cohen

James Elkins

Mary Beard

Linda K. Kerber

Geoffrey Moss

Henry Petroski

Alondra Nelson

Brian Knutson

Saleem H. Ali

Steve Brodner

Stephon H.S. Alexander

Steven Landsburg

Pat Shipman

The End of Human Specialness

Dizzied by Data

The Internet Will Set You Free

Abandoning Disciplines

Head in the Clouds

Fast Evolution

Humility, Chutzpah, and the Future of Democracy

Revalorizing the Trades

A New Cosmopolitanism

Extinction of the Middle Class

The Maddening Crowd

New World, New Art

The Dark Ages—or, Rather, How to Prevent Them

Equity for Women—Still

How Now … ?

Declining Infrastructure, Declining Civilization

The Social Life of DNA

The Objective Study of Subjectivity

Elemental Accounting

The Vision

Soul Science

Putting Ideas to Work

Enough Already!

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