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Elite (Social sciences)

Atlas Aggregated

by Walter Kirn,

No social encounter delights me more than meeting a doctor at a cocktail party. In clinical settings, doctors tend to be guarded and aloof. Catch one with a whiskey in…

Save Our Public Universities

by Marilynne Robinson,

In defense of America’s best idea

A Polite Coup

by Ian Buruma,

Thailand's king is in declining health; Ian Buruma examines why the country so often finds itself under military rule

The Neoliberal Arts

by William Deresiewicz,

How college sold its soul to the market

A Polite Coup

by Ian Buruma,

Why one of Asia’s most open societies keeps turning to military rule

Broken English

by Thomas Frank,

The radio was tuned to NPR, the subject was austerity, and the great observers of our political moment were speaking with their customary authority. The conversation wandered to and fro,…

Tact in the age of Wikileaks

by Slavoj Zizek,

The fatal center

by Thomas Frank,

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…

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,…

A great amnesia

by Marilynne Robinson,

Elite (Social sciences)

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Atlas Aggregated

Save Our Public Universities

A Polite Coup

The Neoliberal Arts

A Polite Coup

Broken English

Tact in the age of Wikileaks

The fatal center

Achievetrons

Requiem for the Private Word

A great amnesia

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