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  • Joan Houlihan
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Digital Culture Wars

Contemporary American politics privileges policing and punishment, while marginalizing the arts and the commons.

  • Frank Pasquale
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The Networked Era: An Interview with Michael Nielsen

Why discussion boards and online marketplaces can make it easier for scientists to pool their data and find far-flung collaborators.

  • Michael Nielsen
  • Lindsey Gilbert
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Summer of ’76

The Harper brothers acted as if they didn’t see Lola or her car, right in front of them, plain as day.

  • Phyllis Alexander
Arts in Society Gender & Sexuality Politics

An Acquired Taste

Swinton gives her all to the martyred victim in We Need to Talk about Kevin.

  • Alan A. Stone
Gender & Sexuality Law Politics

Outing Iran

Publishing news of discrimination against homosexuals in Iran.

  • David William Turner

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Poetry Fights Back

Modern Pashtun poetry is a poetry of resistance.

  • Shaheen Buneri
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Big Brother Buys a GPS

On New Challenges to the Fourth Amendment.

  • Pamela S. Karlan
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A World on Fire

Life and death in a New Orleans squat.

  • Danelle Morton
Philosophy Politics

Citizen Philosophers

Teaching philosophy in Brazil is a political project.

  • Carlos Fraenkel
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Cheating Death

Philosophers Ponder the Afterlife

  • Alex Byrne
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Not So Nasty, Brutish, and Short

Steven Pinker’s Good News

  • Claude S. Fischer
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Poet’s Sampler: Iris Cushing

Selected and with an introduction by Katy Lederer

  • Iris Cushing
  • Katy Lederer
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The Suffering World

Poets Grieve

  • Katie Peterson
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All Together Now

How Description Fosters Connection

  • Siobhan Phillips
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The Bicameral Eyeball

  • John Ashbery
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The Sound of It, Spring

And the birds, oh the birds are everywhere these days.

  • Elizabeth Gramm
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Some Novelties of Stagecraft

  • Matthew Gagnon
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Toxic Assets

  • Sam Witt
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Ambiguous Origins

  • Jack Boettcher
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Boat

  • Spencer Short
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[ill wind]

  • Jesse Lichtenstein
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The State of Utah Is Shaped Like a Glove

  • Alina Gregorian
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Dear Day,

  • Catherine Pierce
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