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Arts and Culture: ‘Moneyball’ Isn’t a Home Run

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Arts and Culture: The Muslim World Brings Forth a Counter-Jihad

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Arts and Culture: Sex Slavery and Impotent Outrage

Arts and Culture: The Examination of Evil

Arts and Culture: A Conversation With Albert Speer

Arts and Culture: ‘Lost Horizon’ for American Ovaries

Arts and Culture: A Whoremonger’s Tumble Into Love

Arts and Culture: ‘The Double Life of Alfred Buber’

Arts and Culture: Book Preview: ‘The Fall’

Arts and Culture: Mortal Sins of Omission

Ear to the Ground: Goldman Sachs to Gently Tweak Business Practices

Arts and Culture: 2010: Best of the Big Screen

Arts and Culture: ‘Another Year’: The Tragedy of Everyday Life

Arts and Culture: Mencken, a Curmudgeon for the Ages

Arts and Culture: Memoirs of an Odd One In

Arts and Culture: America the Material

Arts and Culture: Beyond ‘1984’: New Frontiers of Mass Surveillance

Arts and Culture: Jonathan Franzen in Womanland

Bazaar: Freedom: A Novel

Arts and Culture: Wall Street Revisited: Greed Is Good and Dull

Arts and Culture: Discovering Muslims and Christians of All Kinds

Arts and Culture: Tony Blair’s Journey

Arts and Culture: The Dylan in All of Us

Arts and Culture: A Study of the Worldly Art of Jazz

Ear to the Ground: Afghanistan in Review

Arts and Culture: Nigel Warburton on Why Video Games Are Good

Arts and Culture: Caroline Moorehead on the Exemplary Life of Lesley Blanch

Arts and Culture: Troy Jollimore on Markets and Morality

Arts and Culture: Ruth Scurr on Paris

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Arts and Culture: Peter Stothard on Christopher Hitchens

Arts and Culture: Steve Wasserman on the Scourge of Czarist Russia

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Arts and Culture: Fred Branfman on ‘The Big Short’

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Arts and Culture: Troy Jollimore on Why Democracy Needs the Humanities

Arts and Culture: Francis Robinson on ‘The Arabs’

Arts and Culture: Tony Platt on Rebecca Skloot’s Life of Henrietta Lacks

Arts and Culture: Glen Newey on Amartya Sen’s ‘The Idea of Justice’

Arts and Culture: Allen Barra on the Curious Case of Thomas Sowell

Arts and Culture: Perry Anderson on the Specter of China

Arts and Culture: Scott Sherman on John Ross’ Mexico City

Arts and Culture: Chris Hedges on ‘The Death and Life of American Journalism’

Arts and Culture: Frederic Raphael on ‘The Invention of the Jewish People’

Arts and Culture: Suzanne Pepper on John S. Service

Arts and Culture: Larry Blumenfeld on Ned Sublette’s ‘The Year Before the Flood’

Arts and Culture: Jeremy Bernstein on Garry Wills’ ‘Bomb Power’

Arts and Culture: Milton Viorst on the Emancipation of Europe’s Jews

Arts and Culture: Peter Stothard on ‘The Poison King’

Arts and Culture: Eunice Wong on ‘Footnotes in Gaza’

Arts and Culture: Allen Barra on Winston Churchill

Arts and Culture: Jane Ciabattari on Kurt Vonnegut

Arts and Culture: Tony Platt on Ishi—the Last of the Yahi

Arts and Culture: Richard Ellis on Dinosaurs

Ear to the Ground: ACORN Probe Finds No Pattern of Illegality

Arts and Culture: Troy Jollimore on Karen Armstrong’s ‘The Case for God’

Arts and Culture: Fred Branfman on ‘The Making of an Elder Culture’

Arts and Culture: Claire Wasserman on Europe’s Islamic Immigrants

Arts and Culture: Marc Cooper on the Fate of Cesar Chavez’s Dream

Arts and Culture: Steve Fraser on the Crisis of Capitalism

Arts and Culture: D.J. Waldie on the Cult of Baseball

Arts and Culture: Jonathan Kirsch on ‘The Woman Who Named God’

Arts and Culture: Michael Kazin on Dorothea Lange and the Great Depression

Arts and Culture: Tracy Quan on Class Anxieties

Arts and Culture: Eve Pell on Old Money and Its Discontents

Arts and Culture: Joel Kotkin on California’s Golden Age

Arts and Culture: Benjamin R. Barber on Alan Wolfe’s ‘The Future of Liberalism’

Arts and Culture: Steve Oney on John Buntin’s ‘L.A. Noir’

Arts and Culture: Eric Lax on Elia Kazan

Arts and Culture: Chris Hedges on Alex S. Jones’ ‘Losing the News’

Arts and Culture: Richard Flacks on Pete Seeger

Arts and Culture: Frederic Raphael on Socrates

Arts and Culture: Larry Blumenfeld on New Orleans After Katrina

Arts and Culture: Warren I. Cohen on Obama’s Foreign Policy Challenges

Arts and Culture: Jane Ciabattari on the Delights of the Rural Life

Arts and Culture: Mark A. Fischer on Joe Torre

Arts and Culture: Danny Goldberg on the Digital Music Revolution

Arts and Culture: Troy Jollimore on God’s Evolution

Arts and Culture: Megan Hustad on Class in America

Arts and Culture: Susie Linfield on How to Think About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Arts and Culture: Mark Dowie on I.F. Stone

Arts and Culture: Allen Barra on Cornelius Vanderbilt

Arts and Culture: Chalmers Johnson on the Cost of Empire

Arts and Culture: Tom Hayden on Mark Rudd

Arts and Culture: Lou Cannon on Ronald Reagan

Arts and Culture: Chesa Boudin on Growing Up Radical

Arts and Culture: Susan Jacoby on William Goetzmann’s ‘Beyond the Revolution’

Arts and Culture: Troy Jollimore on the God Debate

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Arts and Culture: Jonathan Shapiro on ‘The Tyranny of Dead Ideas’

Arts and Culture: Norman Birnbaum on Susan Sontag

Arts and Culture: Donald Fanger on Seamus Heaney

Arts and Culture: Allen Barra on the Myth of Ronald Reagan

Arts and Culture: David Rieff on ‘Africa’s World War’

Arts and Culture: Christian Appy on ‘Mekong Diaries’

Arts and Culture: Andrew Nagorski on the Bolsheviks’ Crimes

Arts and Culture: Chesa Boudin on Colombia’s Civil War

Arts and Culture: Warren I. Cohen on China’s ‘Factory Girls’

Arts and Culture: Richard Ellis on ‘Diagnosis: Mercury’

Arts and Culture: Regina Marler on Ted Hughes’ Letters

Arts and Culture: Ed Ward on Ted Gioia’s ‘Delta Blues’

Arts and Culture: Nicholas von Hoffman on Kevin Phillips’ ‘Bad Money’

Reports: The Unlearned Lessons of Vietnam Continue to Haunt The U.S.

Arts and Culture: Karl E. Meyer on Sharon Waxman’s ‘Loot’

Arts and Culture: Simon Lewis on Traumatic Brain Injuries

Arts and Culture: Does the Cold War Have Lessons for Today?

Arts and Culture: Jane Ciabattari on Emily Dickinson’s Friendship With Abolitionist

Arts and Culture: James Blight on the Cuban Missile Crisis

Arts and Culture: Zachary Karabell on the Middle East

Arts and Culture: Kasia Anderson on Barbara Walters

Arts and Culture: Nikki Keddie on Iran

Reports: Closing the Book on a Proud Tradition

Arts and Culture: William Pfaff on General Motors

Arts and Culture: Ellen Garrison on ‘All the Sad Young Literary Men’

Arts and Culture: Ruth Rosen on ‘The Populist Vision’

Arts and Culture: Doug Henwood on the Global Power Elite

Arts and Culture: Richard Flacks on Tom Hayden

Arts and Culture: Gary Indiana on Hobsbawm?s ‘On Empire’

Arts and Culture: ‘Recount’ Gets It Right, Even if America Didn’t

Arts and Culture: Amy Wilentz on Rachel Corrie

Arts and Culture: Chalmers Johnson on Our ‘Managed Democracy’

Arts and Culture: Geoffrey Wheatcroft on ‘Muqtada’

Ear to the Ground: Truthdig Wins a Maggie

Arts and Culture: Jeff Madrick on ‘High Wire,’ Peter Gosselin’s Look at the Economic Meltdown

Ear to the Ground: Rubber-Stamping ‘Failed’ Iraq Projects

Arts and Culture: Troy Jollimore on Martin Amis’ ‘The Second Plane’

Arts and Culture: John Lukacs on Nicholson Baker’s ‘Human Smoke’

Ear to the Ground: Study: Beware of Vitamins

Arts and Culture: Steve Wasserman on Fidel Castro

Arts and Culture: Anthony Heilbut on MaryBeth Hamilton’s ‘In Search of the Blues’

Arts and Culture: Mark Dowie on Michael Shnayerson’s ‘Coal River’

Arts and Culture: Warren Cohen on the Rise (and Fall) of the Neocons

Arts and Culture: Yxta Maya Murray on ‘Love and Consequences’ Hoax

Ear to the Ground: William F. Buckley Jr. Dead at 82

Ear to the Ground: Justice Investigates Itself Over Waterboarding Approval

Arts and Culture: Larry Blumenfeld on New Orleans’ Refusal to Vanish

Arts and Culture: Timothy Snyder on the Forgotten Holocaust

Arts and Culture: Mark Arax on California’s Capitalist Founders

Arts and Culture: Milton Viorst on Israel’s Tragic Predicament

Arts and Culture: Chalmers Johnson on the Myth of Free Trade

Arts and Culture: Michael Gorra on J.M. Coetzee’s ‘Diary of a Bad Year’

Arts and Culture: Carol Brightman on the 1960s

Arts and Culture: Carla Kaplan on ‘The Mitfords’

Arts and Culture: Zachary Karabell on Mark Lilla’s ‘The Stillborn God’

Arts and Culture: Benjamin Barber on ‘Supercapitalism’

Arts and Culture: Cristina Nehring on What’s Wrong With the American Essay

Arts and Culture: The Many Faces of ‘Dylan’

Arts and Culture: John Mack Faragher on the ‘Hard Road West’

Arts and Culture: Mark Sarvas on ‘The Hot Zone’

Ear to the Ground: Standards for Recruits With Criminal Records May Ease

Arts and Culture: Marc Cooper on Hugo Chavez

A/V Booth: ‘Daily Show’ Slams a Night of Bad ‘Burlesque’

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Reports: Mike Jones on Ted Haggard and Hypocrisy

Arts and Culture: New York Theater Review:  ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’

Reports: New York Theater Review:  ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’

Reports: ‘Children of Men’: Universal’s Orphaned Masterpiece

Ear to the Ground: Another Conservative Revises Iraq Thinking

Ear to the Ground: ?World Trade Center? Shuns Politics, Controversy

Reports: John Dean Lauds ‘Playing President’

Ear to the Ground: Gay, Godly and Guilty

Ear to the Ground: National Review Writer: Mea Culpa on Iraq

Reports: Reviewers Praise ‘Playing President’

Ear to the Ground: ‘Da Vinci’ Secret Is Out: Most Critics Hate It

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