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ReThinking: John Green on fighting diseases of injustice

ReThinking: John Green on fighting diseases of injustice

Update: 2025-07-152
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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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Host: Adam Grant (Instagram: @adamgrant | LinkedIn: @adammgrant | Website: adamgrant.net/)

Guest: John Green (Instagram: @johngreenwritesbooks | TikTok: @literallyjohngreen | Website: johngreenbooks.com/


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Crash Course YouTube

Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

Authors@Wharton Program


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Jejj

Two awesome people sharing one space, I love it! 🤩

Jul 15th
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ReThinking: John Green on fighting diseases of injustice

ReThinking: John Green on fighting diseases of injustice