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Forgiving Woody

Woody Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

  • Alan A. Stone
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What Would Augustine Do?

The President, Drones, and Just War Theory

  • David Luban
Class & Inequality

Back To Full Employment

A Boston Review Book

  • Robert Pollin
Class & Inequality Politics

Practice Makes Citizens

An Interview with Meira Levinson

  • Meira Levinson
  • Kip M. Hustace
Class & Inequality Philosophy

The Primal Ache

What Adam Smith Knew about Inequality

  • John Paul Rollert
Arts in Society

Poetry on the Brink: Reinventing the Lyric

Today’s poetry establishment commands polite respect but hardly enthusiasm and excitement.

  • Marjorie Perloff
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  • Annie Finch
  • Cathy Park Hong
  • Dan Beachy-Quick
  • Katie Degentesh
  • Robert Archambeau
  • Lytton Smith
  • Noah Eli Gordon
  • Evie Shockley
  • Rebecca Wolff
  • Ange Mlinko
  • Dorothea Lasky
  • Anthony Madrid
  • Sandra Lim
  • Samuel Amadon
  • Matthew Zapruder
  • DeSales Harrison
  • Stephanie Burt
  • Maureen N. McLane

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A Court of Her Own

An Interview with Pam Karlan

  • Pamela S. Karlan
  • David V. Johnson
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One Bird Behind One Bird

  • Amy King
Arts in Society Law Politics

Purifying Kashmir

Saudi Arabia exports Salafism to the war-torn region

  • Tariq Mir
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Protective Balls

  • Scott Withiam
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Manifesto for Tumor and Poem

  • Jo Ann Clark
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We Make a Thing We Marvel

  • Mario Chard
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Knecht with Nature 765-588-1130

  • Rosalie Moffett
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Gold Empire

  • Rebecca Hazelton
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The Naturalist in the Shower Dwells

  • Franke Varca
Arts in Society

Writing About Sex

The Shocking and Thrilling D. A. Powell

  • Stephanie Burt
Gender & Sexuality Politics

Natural Woman

Elisabether Badinter blames “naturalism” for all-consuming motherhood, but she leaves the real culprits off the hook.

  • Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
Class & Inequality Philosophy Race Science

How to Be Poor

The “culture of poverty” isn’t about moral failure but about reasonable adaptation to circumstances.

  • Claude S. Fischer
Politics

Islam in America

Video of an Ideas Matter event held at MIT on May 15, 2012

  • John R. Bowen
  • Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Christopher Lydon
Philosophy

Exterminate the Brutes

Your pit bull is too violent to live—even if it isn’t.

  • Colin Dayan
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Eye of the Horse

  • Haines Eason
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The Stars in an Alternate Universe

  • Kate Jenkins
Arts in Society Class & Inequality Philosophy Politics

Capitalism and the Urban Struggle

An Interview with David Harvey

  • David Harvey
  • David V. Johnson
Philosophy Science

The Antidepressant Wars

A fierce debate that ignores patients.

  • Sandra J. Tanenbaum
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