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Video: The Responsibility of Intellectuals, Redux

Video of an Ideas Matter event held at MIT on September 22, 2011

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  • Joshua Cohen
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The Escape Artist

Arthur Rimbaud’s Illuminations

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American Autumn

Protest Groups Bring the Arab Spring to the United States

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The Constructive Responsibility of Intellectuals

Using Privilege to Advance Democracy and Justice

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Imagining Faith

If Greenaway correctly diagnosed the aesthetic crisis of modern film, The Tree of Life is the remedy.

  • Alan A. Stone
Politics

Railroad Blues

The smaller Democratic clusters along the rivers and railroads are overwhelmed by their solidly Republican surroundings. 

  • Jonathan Rodden
  • Jowei Chen

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Thirty Seconds From Now

The future is messy. He’s learned to wander only a few seconds ahead.

  • John Chu
Law

A Little Help

Rahman, a native of Pakistan, was wrongfully accused of aiding would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad. 

  • David William Turner
Law

Straight Shooter

Coming home after Navy Seal duty.

  • Matt Gallagher
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Priest, Gangster, Drinker, Gent

Reading Flann in the birthplace of psychoanalysis. 

  • Roger Boylan
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Sometimes an Amendment Is Just an Amendment

Anti-immigrant activists argue that the citizenship clause does not mean what it says. They are wrong.

  • Pamela S. Karlan
Law

End of the Road

News of Osama bin Laden’s killing by U.S. special forces has sunk in. News of al Qaeda’s demise has not.

  • Fawaz A. Gerges
Politics

The Responsibility of Intellectuals, Redux

Using privilege to challenge the state.

  • Noam Chomsky
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My Hungry Soul

Alfred Kazin’s raw materials.

  • Vivian Gornick
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Gone Missing

Geoffrey G. O’Brien’s Metropole

  • David Gorin
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In from the Cold

Miłosz and Brodsky’s productive exile.

  • Alissa Valles
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Poet’s Sampler: Lauren Jensen

Lauren Jensen’s poems are girded with titanium exoskeletons and wear their underwear on the outside.

  • Lauren Jensen
  • Erika Meitner
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After Battle

  • Karen Lepri
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The Rock in Mid-Lake Disappears & I Who Might

  • Jeanne Larsen
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Lottery

  • Anis Shivani
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October

  • Joseph Fasano
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Of Late Fashion

  • Scott Provence
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Used-To Lives On

  • C. J. Sage
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Soup Is One Form of Salt Water

  • Heather Christle
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