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The Hamilton Cult

Has the celebrated musical eclipsed the man himself?

Class Struggle

by Grace Irwin,

I n every city there is a district which is called “tough” — a district which decent people, afraid of insult or theft, shun in both daylight and darkness. It…

Giantess

by Rebecca Solnit,

The radical is so often imagined as the marginal that sometimes the truly subversive escapes detection just by showing up in a tuxedo instead of a T-shirt or a ski…

I Began the Day

by Renee Gladman,

By Renee Gladman, from Calamities, a collection of linked essays that was published this month by Wave Books. Gladman is the author of eight works of prose, including the novel…

Aspirational Brand

From a patient guide to the AspireAssist, a weight-loss device that was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in June.

Tearing Up the Map

by Andrew J. Bacevich, Hamid Dabashi, Hassan Hassan, Kori Schake, Dominique de Villepin, Paula J. Dobriansky,

Toward a post-Obama foreign policy

The Watchmen

by Alan Jacobs,

What became of the Christian intellectuals?

Acceptable Losses

by Andrew Cockburn,

Aiding and abetting the Saudi slaughter in Yemen

The New New Narcissism

by Kristin Dombek,

By Kristin Dombek, from The Selfishness of Others, a monograph that was published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Dombek is the recipient of a 2013 Rona Jaffe award.

Test Perp

From a questionnaire created by Northpointe, a company that develops software to determine the likelihood that a defendant in a criminal trial will break the law in the future. The…

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…

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