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The Red Cipher

  • Craig Morgan Teicher
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Diabolus in Musica

  • Christina Mengert
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Antietam Primer

  • Mary Pinard
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Poet’s Sampler: Marsha Pomerantz

  • Marsha Pomerantz
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The Triangle

Policy wonks, patronage, and the possibilities of the grassroots

  • Michael Gecan
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Ten Vices

  • James Longenbach

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State of the Nation: Court of Public Opinion

Is the Constitution a "living document"?

  • Stephen Ansolabehere
Law Philosophy Politics

A Response to David Mikhail’s Sleepwalker

We must focus on the laws that continue to put so many noncitizens— including legal residents —into detention and deportation proceedings.

  • Mark Dow
Philosophy Politics Science

Against Cyber-Utopianism

Reflections on information technology and democracy. 

  • Joshua Cohen
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Sleepwalker

Forgetting Shakir Baloch

  • David Mikhail
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Private Arrangements

“Recognizing sharia” in England

  • John R. Bowen
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Texting Toward Utopia

Does the Internet spread democracy?

  • Evgeny Morozov
Science

Small, Green, and Good

The role of neglected cities in a sustainable future.

  • Catherine Tumber
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State of Emergency

A personal history of Pakistan on the brink.

  • Moni Mohsin
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Concerning the Correct Way to Make Cabbage

A short story.

  • D.S. Sulaitis
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Fateful Gates

The lives of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

  • Roger Boylan
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The Collaborator

On the writings of V. S. Naipaul.

  • James Wallenstein
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Condemned

Stephen Daldry’s The Reader.

  • Alan A. Stone
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After Ariel

Celebrating the poetry of the women’s movement.

  • Honor Moore
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What Country Is This?

Rereading LeRoi Jones’s The Dead Lecturer.

  • Adrienne Rich
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Song and Silence

My Fanny Howe

  • Maureen N. McLane
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Fighting Words

Lyn Hejinian's Saga/Circus

  • Joyelle McSweeney
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Love Letters

The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

  • Cecily Parks
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Review: Letters to a Stranger

By Thomas James.

  • Tess Taylor
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