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Adapted from “From Universality to Difference: Notes on the Fragmentation of the Idea of the Left.” Originally appeared in the Winter 1993 issue of Contention: Debates in Society, Culture, and…
A warning for the president
It's the newly globalized consumer economy, stupid
One week at the Mall of America
A newcomer's journey through the Pacific Northwest
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