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National characteristics

Brussels Spleen

From an outline for a book Charles Baudelaire planned to write on Belgium, where he lived from 1864 until shortly before his death, in 1867. The outline is published in…

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A Brief Period of Rejoicing

Never mind the European meltdown, here’s the Olympics!

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The Naughts

This essay appears as the introduction to Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper’s Magazine, to be published this month by the New Press. Hodge is the…

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11. The National Character

From the Forum “Undoing Bush” The undoing of the American character has a long history. It took more than half a century from a summer’s day in August, when the…

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