John Green on fighting diseases of injustice
Worklife with Adam Grant
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4.8 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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You may know John Green as the best-selling author of The Fault In Our Stars or the co-creator of the popular YouTube education channel Crash Course. In this episode, John joins Adam for a live conversation at the Authors@Wharton series to discuss his book Everything is Tuberculosis and his mission to fight diseases of injustice. The two also explore strategies for finding motivation and creativity, address John’s banned books, explain how writing is like playing Marco Polo, and uncover John’s favorite Hank Green invention.
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