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Obama’s Jews

Last May, as he claimed the Democratic nomination, Barack Obama was ahead among Jewish voters 2 to 1. Yet, according to cable-and-blog wisdom, that was a serious problem for him.…

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Findings

Researchers suggested that homosexuality in men may be an evolutionary advantage if it is caused by a set of “feminizing” genes and if men who carry sub-critical numbers of these…

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Congenial Disorder

Why should we look for comfort in poetry?

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Books and Circuses

The politics of literary scapegoating

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New books

Fire, water, gas, heat, dust, negligence, ignorance, malice, collectors, book sellers, book worms, insects, children, and servants”—these, according to William Blades in Enemies of Books (1880), are the agents most…

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Willows Village

I needed the favor because I wasn’t doing well and I’d ran out of places to stay and mostly money. I didn’t really like it that my Aunt Maggy would know…

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Radiant Poison

Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and the end of the Jew as metaphor

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Human Quicksand

For the U.S. Army, a Crash Course in Cultural Studies

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Through the Open Door

Searching for deadly toys in China’s Pearl River Delta

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Tyranny of the Test

One year as a Kaplan coach in the public schools

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