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Eighth Stage of Love

  • Laura Van Prooyen
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Color Theory

  • Stephanie Burt
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Butterfly with Parachute

  • Stephanie Burt
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Cinderella

  • Alfred Starr Hamilton
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You

  • Malachi Black
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Reality Check

  • David Lehman

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Electric Fence

  • Tom Healy
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The Coast of Apples

  • Lee Upton
Class & Inequality Politics

Taxing Away Inequality

A Conversation with Emmanuel Saez

  • David B. Grusky
  • Emmanuel Saez
Arts in Society Law Politics

Defending Freedom of Conscience and Religion Abroad

The Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom responds to criticism.

  • Katrina Lantos Swett
Gender & Sexuality

Paternité, Maternité, Egalité

In France, a Strange, Last-Ditch Campaign Against Marriage Equality

  • Cécile Alduy
Arts in Society

How It’s Made

Eileen Myles — Snowflake/different streets.

  • Kathleen Rooney
Arts in Society Class & Inequality

An Embarrassment of Riches

Literature and the Ethics of Wealth in the Gilded Age

  • Gavin Jones
Arts in Society Class & Inequality

Who Are You Calling Poor?

Managing Editor Simon Waxman interviews Jina Moore about how she reports and writes about poverty.

  • Simon Waxman
  • Jina Moore
Gender & Sexuality Law Politics

The Good of the Child

Is there actually a right to know one’s biogenetic familial origins?

  • Charlotte Witt
Arts in Society

Games About Frames

Minimalists Craig Dworkin and Michael O’Brien

  • Stephanie Burt
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A Love Story

Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master. 

  • Alan A. Stone
Law Philosophy Politics Science

Strapped

My eight years with a gun.

  • Hal Stucker
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Syntactical Splurges

Bernadette Mayer’s The Scarlet Tanager.

  • Bryn Canner
Arts in Society Law Politics

Muslims Need Not Apply

Disband the International Commission on Religious Freedom

  • Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Politics

Unfinished Revolution

Dr. King’s goal was full employment and universal health care.

  • J. Phillip Thompson
Politics

The Day Wikipedia Went Dark

The free Internet will rise or fall on the involvement and ingenuity of the people, not on courts or lawmakers.

  • Edward Lee
Arts in Society Class & Inequality Politics

Islamophobia Is Bad for Business

Anti-Arab and anti-Muslim sentiment has cost the United States and the West a number of business opportunities.

  • Massoud Hayoun
Politics

The Filibuster Myth

Debate about the Senate filibuster is a distracting, artificial controversy.

  • Charles Fried
  • Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr.
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