Many economists are offering a robust challenge to laissez-faire, but to prevail they’ll have to win in the court of public opinion.
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Cleaning Up the Capital
Lawrence Lessig wants to change the corrupt campaign-finance system. His solution, though, is wanting.
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Imagining Malcolm X
Manning Marable’s biography of Malcolm X is a significant and poignant cultural event because of its subject, its purpose, and the recent tragic death of its author, the founder of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. Marable worked on this biography for more than two decades, struggling in recent years with […]
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The Corrupter of Youth
Richard Rorty’s provocative pragmatism reached an audience far beyond academic philosophers. A new biography unfortunately ends before he ascends to that larger stage.
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The Right in the Rearview Mirror
It took liberals 30 years to take conservatism seriously. Now we’re obsessed with it. E.J. Dionne considers four new books about the end of the conservative era.
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TAP Talks to Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman’s latest book is The Conscience of a Liberal, echoing Paul Wellstone’s book of the same title. TAP sat down with Krugman earlier this week to talk about Wellstone, inequality, and the rise of progressive politics.
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State of the Debate: The Color of the Law
Race and crime commingle dangerously in the American psyche. Now that crime rates are declining, might color-blind justice finally be achievable?
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Controversy: The Virtues of Humiliation
Continuing the debate from “The Shaming Sham,” by Carl F. Horowitz (March-April 1997).