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This week’s articles of note
“Does school choice ‘work’?” National Affairs, by Frederick M. Hess “The elections: how bad for the Democrats?” The New York Review of Books, by Michael Tomasky “As the world burns,” The New Yorker, by Ryan Lizza [on the Senate and climate change] “The paranoid style in liberal politics,” Commentary, by Andrew Ferguson “From diversity to […]
This week’s articles of note
“Obama in command: the Rolling Stone interview,” Rolling Stone, by Jann S. Wenner “Small change: why the revolution will not be tweeted,” The New Yorker, by Malcolm Gladwell “Being Glenn Beck,” The New York Times Magazine, by Mark Leibovich “Bugged naked: webcams, sex and the death of privacy,” Slate, by William Saletan “Downtime: on the […]
This week’s articles of note
“The Connecticut country-club crackup,” The New York Times Magazine, by Matt Bai “America’s true history of religious tolerance,” Smithsonian, by Kenneth C. Davis “The ‘Freedom’ agenda,” The New York Times, by David Brooks [On Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom] “The non-economist’s economist,” Wall Street Journal, by James Grant [Essay on John Kenneth Galbraith] “The idea of a […]
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“How the Tea Party organizes without leaders,” National Journal, by Jonathan Rauch “How Obama thinks,” Forbes, by Dinesh D’Souza “The slump goes on: why?” The New York Review of Books, by Paul Krugman and Robin Wells [Review of three books on the economic crisis] “The limits of science,” More Intelligent Life, by Anthony Gottlieb “Why […]
This week’s articles of note
“What America has lost,” Newsweek, by Fareed Zakaria “Beware of Greeks bearing bonds,” Vanity Fair, by Michael Lewis “Why has he fallen short?” The New York Review of Books, by Frank Rich [Review of The Promise: President Obama, Year One, by Jonathan Alter] “The United States of inequality,” Slate, by Timothy Noah “Fidel: ‘Cuban model […]
This week’s articles of note
“Progressives against progress,” City Journal, by Fred Siegel “Covert operations: the two billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama,” The New Yorker, by Jane Mayer “How the stimulus is changing America,” Time, by Michael Grunwald “Can preschoolers be depressed?” The New York Times Magazine, by Pamela Paul “Ideas of the century: Neurophilosophy,” The […]
This week’s articles of note
“What is it about 20-Somethings?” The New York Times Magazine, by Robin Marantz Henig “Washington, we have a problem,” Vanity Fair, by Todd Purdum “The clash of civilizations at Ground Zero,” goteborg-posten, by Kenan Malik [republished on kenanmalik.com] “America: land of loners?” The Wilson Quarterly, by Daniel Akst “Bob Dylan, the Beat Generation, and Allen Ginsburg’s […]
This week’s articles of note
“The point of no return,” The Atlantic, by Jeffrey Goldberg “Newt Gingrich: The indispensable Republican,” Esquire, by John H. Richardson “The Golden State’s war on itself,” City Journal, by Joel Kotkin “Postcard from Detroit,” n+1, by Mark Binelli “The defeat of Prop 8 is a Pyrrhic victory,” spiked, by Helen Searls “The voices of a […]
This week’s articles of note
“Afghan women and the return of the Taliban,” Time, by Aryn Baker “What the Great Recession has done to family life,” New York Times Magazine, by Judith Warner “The crisis of middle-class America,” Financial Times, by Edward Luce “The key lesson of the BP oil spill? Don’t panic,” spiked, by Rob Lyons “What social science […]
This week’s articles of note
“Top secret America,” The Washington Post, by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin “The Volcker Rule,” The New Yorker, by John Cassidy “Too many laws, too many prisoners,” The Economist “The age of rage,” Politico, by John F. Harris and Jim VandeHei “The $2 camisole: how cheap is ruining our lives,” Salon, by Mary Elizabeth […]