Just to be clearer…This is a completely self-indulgent post. But, for the record, let me say that I am still tremendously hopeful and enthusiastic about Obama’s presidency, even if a recent piece of mine in the Guardian might suggest otherwise. (I didn’t pen the headline, incidentally–editors write those.) That said, yes, the White House’s squishiness on Wall Street has been troubling. When Zeus gets angry, he doesn’t give stern statements to reporters. He hurls lightning bolts.
An absurd politicization of scientific research that will weaken America.
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The Washington Monthly’s annual award celebrates the best in nonfiction book reviewing and honors the memory of Kukula Kapoor Glastris, the magazine’s beloved books editor.
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A new book treats old age, or ‘gerontocracy,’ as the central crisis of modern politics. The framing obscures more than it explains.
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In the 1980s, serious people feared World War III and acted to prevent it. Today, our slouch toward World War III is being orchestrated by egotistical sociopaths.
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Nicholas Lemann’s family history illuminates what it means to be Jewish in America and explains how we choose our religious and ethnic identities.
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Two rulings this year, including one this month, have laid bare the court’s fundamental misinterpretation of the landmark law and the Reconstruction Era Constitutional amendments that transformed America.
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I studied with the late Harvard professor who had a nuanced understanding of class and race in America.
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