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Psychology

A Supposedly Fun Thing

Tough Luqman

From an October 27 federal criminal complaint against Luqman Ameen Abdullah and ten other alleged members of Ummah, a radical Islamic separatist group based in Detroit. On October 28, after…

The American Void

by Simon Critchley,

From remarks delivered at the American Political Science Association in Boston on August 30 and at the New School in New York City on September 18. Critchley is the chair…

Philosopher kings

by Fernando King,

Radiant Poison

by Vivian Gornick,

Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and the end of the Jew as metaphor

Generation why?

by Harper’s Staff,

Seed capital

by Cathy Middleton,

Heroes

From complaints submitted by four San Diego firemen who were ordered to drive a fire truck in a July 21 gay-pride parade. While I was sitting there waiting for the…

The Summer of Our Discontent

by Rich Cohen,

An ode to sleepaway camp

Why don’t you change your life?

by Harper’s Staff,

Literary entrails

by Cynthia Ozick,

The boys in the alley, the disappearing readers, and the novel's ghostly twin