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Can Capitalism survive? No. I do not think it can. —Joseph Schumpeter, 1942 The problem is not how to save capitalism but how to save the unique and successful mixed…

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Protect Financial Consumers

Go into any appliance store in America and look for a toaster with a one-in-five chance of exploding. You won’t find one. But at any mortgage brokerage in the country…

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Standoff in Columbus

Guns, dogs and the language of totality

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Bollywood Shuffle

A white actor tries to break into Hindi film

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News From Nowhere

Iceland’s polite dystopia

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Bleak Houses

Digging through the ruins of the mortgage crisis

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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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The mandarins

American foreign policy, brought to you by China

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Looks good on paper

With welfare-to-work, presentation is everything

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The Wrecking Crew

How a gang of right-wing con men destroyed Washington and made a killing

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The perfect game

Five years with the master of Pac-Man

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Crimes Against Nature

The many uses of the Daniel Boone National Forest

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A Mind Dismembered

In search of the magical penis thieves

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