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Figures of Speech

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,

By the rivers of Babylon

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Of Mohawks and Mavericks

by Garret Keizer,

Creative destruction

by Roger D. Hodge,

Obama’s Jews

by Bernard Avishai,

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.…

Elegy for a Rubber Stamp

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Fulfilling your duties, where does that land you? Into jealousy, upsets, persecution. Is that the way to get on? Butter people up, good God, butter them up, watch the great,…

Requiem for the Private Word

by Garret Keizer,

Most people in America love playing with tape recorders. —Chairman Mao, incredulous at the fall of Richard Nixon Robert Gensburg has practiced law in my community since 1967. His wife,…

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…

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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

By the rivers of Babylon

Of Mohawks and Mavericks

Creative destruction

Obama’s Jews

Elegy for a Rubber Stamp

Requiem for the Private Word

Company policy

Democracy and Deference

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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

By the rivers of Babylon

Of Mohawks and Mavericks

Creative destruction

Obama’s Jews

Elegy for a Rubber Stamp

Requiem for the Private Word

Company policy

Democracy and Deference

November 2010

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