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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. —Gustave Flaubert Notebook departs this month from the table of contents, its purpose served and its license expired after…

Why Dogs Go After Mail Carriers

by Garret Keizer,

Toward a Second Haitian Revolution

by Steven Stoll,

For decades, America’s economics and business elites have been confidently assuring their countrymen that the alarming decline of the U.S. manufacturing sector was nothing to worry about. Dying industries and…

Understanding Obamacare

by Luke Mitchell,

The idea that there is a competitive “private sector” in America is appealing, but generally false. No one hates competition more than the managers of corporations. Competition does not enhance…

The cold we caused

by Steven Stoll,

The Economics of Occupation

by Bernard Avishai,

Golden State Fever

by Peter Schrag,

Fatheralong

by John Edgar Wideman,

Fat and scant of breath

by Paul West,

Notebook

by Negar Azimi,

On deadline

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Shine, perishing Republicans

by Garret Keizer,

Achievetrons

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Few men are so disinterested as to prefer to live in discomfort under a government which they hold to be right, rather than in comfort under one which they hold to be…

A quibble

by Mark Slouka,

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The confessions of Glenn Beck

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Servile disobedience

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The fatal center

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Bright frenetic mills

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Figures of Speech

The world, shanghaied

Why Dogs Go After Mail Carriers

Improvable feasts

Agrarian anxieties

Is Sarah Palin porn?

Doing the laundry

Toward a Second Haitian Revolution

Consider the Germans

The mendacity of hope

Up from Globalism

Understanding Obamacare

The cold we caused

The Economics of Occupation

Golden State Fever

Fatheralong

Fat and scant of breath

Notebook

On deadline

Shine, perishing Republicans

Achievetrons

A quibble

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The confessions of Glenn Beck

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Servile disobedience

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The fatal center

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Bright frenetic mills

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Figures of Speech

The world, shanghaied

Why Dogs Go After Mail Carriers

Improvable feasts

Agrarian anxieties

Is Sarah Palin porn?

Doing the laundry

Toward a Second Haitian Revolution

Consider the Germans

The mendacity of hope

Up from Globalism

Understanding Obamacare

The cold we caused

The Economics of Occupation

Golden State Fever

Fatheralong

Fat and scant of breath

Notebook

On deadline

Shine, perishing Republicans

Achievetrons

A quibble

March 2011

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