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Arts in Society Science

Ground Down to Molasses

The making of an American folk song.

  • Dave Byrne
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Severance

Winner of the 2014 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest

  • Leslee Becker
Law

A New U.S. Grand Strategy

How to stop the United States from overreaching, overspending, and overcommitting. 

  • Barry R. Posen
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The Lost Girls

Catherine Hardwicke’s Thirteen.

  • Alan A. Stone
Politics

What Is Political Correctness?

The project of decontextualizing language.

  • Simon Waxman
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Transcendentalism

  • Reuben Silberman

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Nearing Sleep

  • Darryl Lorenzo Wellington
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Looking South to the River (II)

  • Li Hou Zhu
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Microreviews: April/May 2004

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Cubicle Gothic

On writing Kings of Infinite Space

  • James Hynes

Breaking Up

Bruce Wagner's Hollywood

  • Rachel Cline

Prime Time

  • Jascha Hoffman
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Big 32

A short piece of fiction.

  • Ander Monson
Class & Inequality Politics

Saving Social Security

A gimmick-free plan for long-term solvency

  • Peter A. Diamond
  • Peter R. Orszag
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On the Narcissism of Minor Differences

  • Joel Brouwer
Law

SCOTUS Protects ‘The Privacies of Life’

At last, a unanimous Supreme Court decision in which the Justices agree with… me.

  • Reed Hundt
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Poet’s Sampler: Miranda Field

  • James Longenbach
Gender & Sexuality

Justice Roberts Should Visit an Abortion Clinic

The buffer zone decision is wonderfully logical but also divorced from real experience.

  • Simon Waxman
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Microreview: Jamaal May, HUM

  • Joelle Biele
Politics

Selfish or Self-Aware?

Has the State of the Union address become more egocentric?

  • Claude S. Fischer
Arts in Society Gender & Sexuality

Forget O’Hara

Lonely Christopher’s Death and Disaster Series.

  • Felix Bernstein
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Mark Ford and the Real World

Ford helps American readers take pleasure in seeing with fresh eyes a country they know too well to notice.

  • Scott Bartley
Arts in Society

Cultural Cannibal

The journalism of Gabriel García Márquez.

  • Jessica Sequeira

From the Editors: July/August 2014

 
 

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen
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