The New Orleans Book Festival returns to Tulane March 12–15, opening with a major conversation featuring Ken Burns, Walter Isaacson, and Annette Gordon-Reed.

The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University will open its 2026 edition with a high-profile keynote event examining the nation’s past and future as the United States approaches its 250th ...

In a conversation moderated by The Atlantic editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, the opening night of the New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University will feature Walter Isaacson, filmmaker Ken Burns ...

Walter Isaacson, Perella Weinberg advisory partner and Tulane University professor, joins 'Closing Bell' to discuss artificial intelligence, its impact on the labor market, and more. Got a ...

We’ve got a big birthday coming up this year. Our 250th. Here’s my birthday wish: Let’s use this anniversary to unite our nation around our shared values. We have become so polarized and poisonous in ...

Walter Isaacson, Tulane University professor and Perella Weinberg advisory partner, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the current state of the American Dream, whether the America Dream is still attainable ...

I almost wound up underlining all of Walter Isaacson’s slim new book, The Greatest Sentence Ever Written. It’s that smart, challenging, personal, humane -- with only 41 pages of text and a few short ...

Humans have produced some great sentences over the years, such as this one from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the ...

Humans have produced some great sentences over the years, such as this one from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the ...

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