In case you missed it, or were waiting for President's Day on Monday, February 12 is Abraham Lincoln's birthday. And Charles Darwin's birthday. Same year, too. 1809, two hundred years ago. Which caused the New Yorker's Adam Gopnik to write a book about that coincidence and the effect of their lives on Western thought. I talked to Adam backstage at City Arts & Lectures about why Darwin continues to incite, why he delayed publishing his theories of natural selection, and whether Obama has the capacity to introduce a new framework for viewing the world.
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