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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A Liberal’s Guide to Middle Earth
HBO’s new show Game of Thrones goes beyond the black and white of good versus evil and delves into the gray.
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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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What Would Jefferson Do?
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism By Susan Jacoby • Metropolitan Books • 432 pages • $27.50 Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Christians and Jews Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain By María Rosa Menocal • Back Bay Books • 272 pages • $26.95 The Pity of It All: A Portrait of […]
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Honey, I Sold the Kids
In her new book, Consuming Kids, ventriloquist-turned-child-psychologist Susan Linn tries to build a movement to regulate marketing to children. You say there has been an explosion of marketing to children. What do you mean? The proliferation of electronic media that happened in the ‘80s and the early ‘90s has made kids more vulnerable then ever. […]
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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?