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Dirty Pop
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From “Chains or Whips? The Cruel Decade and its Aftermath,” which was published in February by The White Review. The decade of cruelty started with low-rise jeans. Of course, no…

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Rebirth of a Nation
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Can states’ rights save us from a second civil war?

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W.W.E. the People
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By Naomi Klein, from No Is Not Enough, which was published in June by Haymarket Books. Klein is the author of The Shock Doctrine, among other books.

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American Idle
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By Mark Greif, from Against Everything, a collection of his essays that will be published in September by Pantheon. Greif is the author of The Age of the Crisis of…

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Pretty Hurts
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From nicknames given to participants on Let Me In, a South Korean reality-television show, in which a panel of beauty experts approves contestants for a plastic-surgery makeover. The nicknames describe…

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Found Money
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Televised auctions and the Great Recession

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Voting Democracy off the Island
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Reality TV and the Republican ethos

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Natural selection
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The intimacy SWAT team
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Tales from the Cutting-Room Floor
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The reality of “reality-based” television

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“An American family”
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