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Popular culture

If music and sweet poetry agree

by Harper’s Staff,

The golden horde

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Morning in America

by Tony Hendra,

The rise and fall of the National Lampoon

The numbing of the American mind

by Thomas De Zengotita,

Culture as anesthetic

The middle mind

by Curtis White,

The tenth muse

by Jacques Barzun,

Who is Demotica, what is she?

Against smoothness

by Mark Kingwell,

Blonde ambitions

by Daniel Harris,

The rise of Madonna studies

Selling our innocence abroad

by Pico Iyer,

She wants her TV! He wants his book!

by Camille Paglia,Edited by Lewis H. Lapham,

Van Gogh’s ear

by Harper’s Staff,

Further notes on the official culture

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