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Easy Chair

Company policy

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Democracy and Deference

by Mark Slouka,

I blame my parents, which is trite but traditional. Six years after stepping onto the troubled shore of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s America they had a son and promptly began to fill…

Estate sale

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Why I Pay My Taxes

by Ben Metcalf,

And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute? He saith, Yes. And when he was…

Mudville

by Lewis H. Lapham,

The moral equivalent of empire

by Jonathan Schell,

Hearts of gold

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Hot air gods

by Curtis White,

Blowing bubbles

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Specific Suggestion

by Garret Keizer,

General strike

Flies in amber

by Lewis H. Lapham,

The big enchilada

by Jonathan Kozol,

Air quality

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Climate, Class, and Claptrap

by Garret Keizer,

Time Travel

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Driverless

by Bernard Avishai,

Terror alerts

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Pathologies of Hope

by Barbara Ehrenreich,

Uncle Sam

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Loaded

by Garret Keizer,

Going by the Book

by Lewis H. Lapham,

The next war

by Daniel Ellsberg,

Lionhearts

by Lewis H. Lapham,

God mode

by Luke Mitchell,

Class act

by Lewis H. Lapham,

On simple human decency

by Ben Metcalf,

Blue guitar

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Mute button

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Eyes wide shut

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Exit strategies

by Lewis H. Lapham,

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