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Books
Read reviews of nonfiction books on policy, politics and power
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Vive la Mère
Is breastfeeding the new patriarchy? Elisabeth Badinter overstates her case—and overlooks what the French can really teach us about raising children.
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The Queer List, Part 1: Del Martin and Phyllis Lyons
An intermittent series on LGBT political and cultural figures that you may (or may not) have heard of.
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The Case of the Vanishing Middle Class
Timothy Noah’s The Great Divergence deftly explores the roots and resurgence of American inequality.
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Rebuilding the World
Anthony Shadid’s final book on the remaking of a house in Lebanon
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The Nuclear Politics of a Poem
A look at the poem that led the Israeli government to declare Gunter Grass a persona non grata.
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I’ve Got Some Assignments for Rachel Maddow
Looking at Drift from the perspective of defense intellectuals.
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Part Two: Charles Murray, the Long View
Coming Apart caps three decades of faux concern for the poor.
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Charles Murray, the Long View
In 1984, the right’s star public intellectual wrote the book that drove welfare reform. Coming Apart is an alibi for his own failed big idea.
