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Spencer Weinreich
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Spencer Weinreich

Bruce Mann Portrait
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Fifteen Questions: Bruce H. Mann on Legal History, Studying Debt, and Owning Golden Retrievers

Legal Historian Bruce Mann sat down with FM to discuss socratic teaching, the pervasiveness of debt, and supporting his wife, Senator Elizabeth Warren, on the campaign trail.

Bruce Mann Portrait
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Bruce Mann Portrait

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Fifteen Questions: Serhii Plokhii on Atlantis, Chernobyl, and the Dangers of Writing History

History professor and Ukrainian Research Institute director Serhii Plokhii sat down with FM to discuss his newly-published book on Chernobyl, his role as a historian of the Russo-Ukrainian war, and how searching for the lost city of Atlantis pulled him into academia.

Serhii Plokhii portrait
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Serhii Plokhii portrait

Serhii Plokhii, History professor and director of the Ukrainian Research Institute, studies Ukranian history and recently published a book about Chernobyl.

.Maya Jasanoff 15Q Portrait
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Fifteen Questions during the Solar Eclipse: Maya Jasanoff on the British Empire, Joseph Conrad, and Judging The Booker Prize

The history professor talked with Fifteen Minutes during the solar eclipse about being in a family of academics, postcolonial literature, and reading.

Maya Jasanoff Eclipse 15Q Picture
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Maya Jasanoff Eclipse 15Q Picture

The trees began to sway and the bushes gently rustled as a breeze came over the courtyard. The shadows lost their strength.

.Maya Jasanoff 15Q Portrait
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.Maya Jasanoff 15Q Portrait

Jasanoff is the Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard. Her research has taken her from the city of Calcutta to the worlds of Joseph Conrad; she interests herself in subjects as varied as the workings of the British Empire and our obsession with ancestry.

Yegvenia Albats
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Fifteen Questions: Yevgenia Albats on Journalism in the USSR, Freedom of the Press, and Her Bibliophilia

The journalist sat down with Fifteen Minutes to talk about her career, including being declared an enemy of the Russian state, investigative reporting on KGB officials, and her deep love of reading that was kindled in Widener Library’s basement. “In many countries, people are suffering because of their cruel leaders, because of injustice, because of poverty, because of absence of normal medical help,” she says. “Our job is to tell their stories.”

Yegvenia Albats
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Yegvenia Albats

Yegvenia Albats is a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and former Editor-in-Chief and CEO of Russian publication The New Times.

crespo portrait
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crespo portrait

Andrew Manuel Crespo ’05 is a professor of criminal law and procedure at Harvard Law school, the executive faculty director of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration, and a founding editor of Inquest, a forum for advancing decarceral ideas.

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Fifteen Questions: Andrew Manuel Crespo ’05 on Plea Bargaining, Playing Football in High School, and a Fateful Coop Dance Party

The law professor sat down with FM to talk about the potential of collective plea bargaining, meeting his wife on the dance floor of the Dudley Coop, and what’s kept him coming back to Harvard. “The Harvard degree does not confer on you a guarantee that you will use the privilege and power that you get by virtue of being here to make the world better. That’s a choice. It’s always a choice,” he says.

Jonathan L. Zittrain
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Jonathan L. Zittrain

Jonathan L. Zittrain is a professor at Harvard Law School and faculty director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.

Jonathan L. Zittrain
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Fifteen Questions: Jonathan Zittrain on Social Media, AI Litigation, and CompuServe

The law professor sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss AI regulation, moderating online communities, and the Applied Social Media Lab. “I’m very interested in ways to see how people can gather with a sense of shared ownership rather than a corporate patron overseeing the conversation,” Zittrain says.

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Fifteen Questions: Naomi Oreskes on Climate Change Denial, Apolitical Scientists, and Her Favorite Rocks

The historian and her dog sat down with Fifteen Minutes to talk about disinformation, climate change, and rocks. “Generally people don’t act — especially if you’re asking people to change how they're living, how they’re behaving, how they’re thinking — if you just give them dry scientific information,” Oreskes says.

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