Emily Bazelon’s look at how bullying—once known as “kids will be kids”—came to be seen as a crisis.
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Goodbye, Petraeus
The general’s gone, but a new book on his big idea is essential for the coming defense debates.
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Camelot’s Begetter
Besides being the father of John, Bobby, and Teddy, Joe Kennedy left behind a tattered legacy.
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The Best of David Foster Wallace
When the novelist learned to escape his own mind, he got a little closer to the greatness he sought.
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Want Less Inequality? Tax It
Revive the big idea of British economist Arthur C. Pigou! And apply it to America’s most outrageous problem.
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My Favorite Martian
Herman Wouk, who won the Pulitzer Prize for The Caine Mutiny way back in 1951 and later gifted heartland America with The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, among other pop-culture landmarks, has just come out with a new novel at the preposterous-not to say preposterously entertaining-age of 97. The Lawgiver, it’s called, and […]
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The Great Conservative “No!”
William F. Buckley’s heirs are starving on a red-meat diet.
