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By Carrie Rickey — Do we learn anything about Margaret Thatcher from Abi Morgan’s screenplay? And more important, will anyone born after Thatcher’s 11 years in office learn anything about her brand of conservatism and its effects?
Posted on Jan 14, 2012
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By Aram Sinnreich — The world we see through our smartphones is a curated world, and its horizons are constricting, rather than expanding.
Posted on Jan 13, 2012
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By Scott Tucker — We just lived through a year of uprisings round the world, including the Occupy Wall Street movement. In culture, in science and in politics we have every reason to expect that the opening years of this century will be as dangerous and as transformative as the first decade of the 20th.
Posted on Jan 10, 2012
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By Christopher Ketcham — It is clear that nowhere in American commercial life, save perhaps the graveyard, is there a space not polluted by electronic voices.
Posted on Jul 24, 2011
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Does the prospect of deepening economic meltdown and political disarray raise the specter of a social upheaval and, perhaps, the collapse of capitalism, the likes of which we haven’t seen since the Great Depression?
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Are Americans sacrificing the possibility of a more tolerant humanity for a suffocating guarantee of fidelity, a frigid prospect that seemingly unites the commissars of the politically correct left as much as it does the thought police of the puritanical right?
Posted on Aug 21, 2009
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‘Losing’ the World: American Decline in Perspective, Part 1
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