A new book charts the intellectual history of the Village Voice’s towering rock critics, as well as the community that sprung up around them.
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Data Comes to the Culture Wars
A sociologist runs the numbers on charges of liberal campus bias.
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The New Deal That Could Have Been
How the white-supremacist South made possible the New Deal—and drastically curtailed it.
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Sheryl Sandberg’s Can-Do Feminism
Why she’s a reformer in the church of meritocracy and not a heretic
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Fear and the New Deal
FDR ascended to the White House 80 years ago. How has his legacy—and the legacy of his landmark legislation—shifted in the years since?
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Stalked, Virtually
James Lasdun’s memoir on the terrifying frailty of reputation in the Internet era.
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Riding Downton’s Coattails
HBO’s adaptation of Parade’s End premieres tonight—too bad the show stole its soapy predecessor’s formula but none of the fun.
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Social Climate Change
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.
