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Editors' Picks
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Race or Class? The Future of Affirmative Action on the College Campus
Jun 22, 2014Focusing college-student recruitment on poor neighborhoods can overlook middle-class African Americans entitled to affirmative action.
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Piety and Politics in America
May 15, 2015The tension between religiosity and secular government goes back to the nation’s founding.
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It's All About the Money
May 21, 2015How America became preoccupied with higher education’s bottom line.
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The Road to Marriage Equality: Boies and Olson’s Wedding March
Jun 17, 2014What the limelight-loving legal team did and didn’t win for same-sex couples' right to marry.
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New Film About Liberal Gadfly Gore Vidal Totally Misses the Point
Jun 06, 2014Gore Vidal rejoiced in making his readers' lives more complicated by baring the power drives underneath our political pieties. The United States of Amnesia does him, and its audience, no justice.
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Is 'The Fault In Our Stars' Author John Green His Generation's Pop Philosopher?
Jun 01, 2014The author and phenom, with a bajillion Internet viewers, has built an avid Internet following with pep talks on how to be good. What does it mean to live like one of Green's "Nerdfighters"?
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Have Literary Prizes Lost Their Meaning? (Have They Ever Had Any?)
May 26, 2014Cultural prizes notoriously reward the wrong works for the wrong reasons: On the long list of worthies deprived of the Nobel for literature are Tolstoy, Proust, and Joyce.
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The Brothers Koch: Family Drama and Disdain for Democracy
May 20, 2014Lawsuits are the billionaire brothers’ weapon of choice—against each other—writes Daniel Schulman in his first-rate new bio. But buying our democracy, and maybe killing it, is pure self-interest.
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The Clear-Eyed Utopianism of Ellen Willis
May 09, 2014One of her work's most salutary effects is its reminder that to cut yourself off from utopian impulses is to die a little.
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What Piketty Leaves Out
Apr 29, 2014Despite some losses to financial capital during the Great Depression, the more powerful era of equality in the U.S. began during World War II.
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Too Big to Fail. Not Too Strong.
Apr 22, 2014Nomi Prins’s new book traces America’s propping up of banks since the robber barons.
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A Song for Gabriel García Márquez--and the Rest of Us
Apr 18, 2014One Hundred Years of Solitude didn’t just crystalize who García Márquez was; it crystalized who I was.
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Karl Polanyi Explains It All
Apr 15, 2014Want to understand our market-crazed era? Rediscover the 20th century’s most prophetic critic of capitalism.
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How John Paul Stevens Would Amend the Constitution
Apr 11, 2014The former Supreme Court justice has some suggestions for a better democracy in his new book.
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Why Reading Globally Matters
Apr 10, 2014The case for breaking our parochial American reading habits.
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Francois Mitterrand, the Man with a Plan
Apr 04, 2014A new biography of the former president of France examines the man's setbacks, gambles, and pragmatic self-reinventions.
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Piketty's Triumph
Mar 25, 2014Three expert takes on Capital in the Twenty-First Century, French economist Thomas Piketty's data-driven magnum opus on inequality.
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The Decline of Conservative Publishing
Mar 21, 2014The days when any two-bit hack with an anti-liberal screed could get on the bestseller lists are apparently behind us.
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