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Essay

On Free Will

By Edward O. Wilson,

And how the brain is like a colony of ants

Francis and the Nuns

By Mary Gordon,

Is the new Vatican all talk?

The Civil Rights Act’s Unsung Victory

By Randall Kennedy,

And how it changed the South

Diagnose This

By Heidi Julavits,

How to be your own best doctor

Nothing Left

By Adolph Reed Jr.,

The long, slow surrender of American liberals

Wrong Answer

By Nicholson Baker,

The case against Algebra II

The Devil’s Bait

By Leslie Jamison,

Symptoms, signs, and the riddle of Morgellons

Poetry Slam

By Mark Edmundson,

Or, The decline of American verse

Blinded by the Right?

By T. M. Luhrmann,

How hippie Christians begat evangelical conservatives

Sentimental Medicine

By Eula Biss,

Why we still fear vaccines

Our Place in the Universe

By Alan Lightman,

Face to face with the infinite

Ignorance of Things Past

By Lewis H. Lapham,

Who wins and who loses when we forget American history

After 9/11

By David Rieff,

The limits of remembrance

Visible Man

By Peter Singer,

Ethics in a world without secrets

Army of Altruists

By David Graeber,

On the alienated right to do good

Imagine There’s No Oil

By Bryant Urstadt,

Scenes from a liberal apocalypse

Stabbed in the Back!

By Kevin Baker,

The past and future of a right-wing myth

The Case for Impeachment

By Lewis H. Lapham,

Why we can no longer afford George W. Bush

Saving Israel from Itself

By Bernard Avishai,

A secular future for the Jewish state

Should John Walker Lindh Go Free?

By Edwin Dobb,

On the rights of the detained

Why We Hate Teachers

By Garret Keizer,

Notes on a noble American tradition

Who Will Tell the People?

By Russell Banks,

On waiting, still, for the great Creole-American novel

Who and What is American?

By Lewis H. Lapham,

The things we continue to hold in common

Design for a New Academy

By Frederick W. Turner,

An end to division by department

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