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Words are the Weapons, the Weapons Must Go: The Cuban Revolution and the American Left
A review of Rafael Rojas’s "Fighting over Fidel: The New York Intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution".
History
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw
Applied Existentialism
The good-hearted Jean-Paul Sartre, the elegant Simone de Beauvoir, and the debonair Raymond Aron sat in a bar on Paris’s rue du Montparnasse.
LA: “A Place People Hack One Another to Pieces with Pistols”
On Its 40th Anniversary: Notes on the Making of All the President’s Men
In time All the President's Men revealed its theme to us — what John Huston called “the bell that rings in every scene.” This wasn’t just a movie about the reporters’ need to know.
The Bones of What You Believe
Tom Bissell transforms Jesus's Apostles from figures of myth to tangible human beings, in search of a scholarly perspective on the origins of Christianity.
Speaking Substances: Bodies
The Oglala Lakota chief Red Cloud, who lived from 1822–1909, is distinguished by two unusual superlatives.
Imitatio Americana
"Against Self-Reliance" amends the popular story of a US that gives primary importance to the "sacred self."
Polling the Soul
How has polling changed not only how we think about religion but how religious people themselves conceive of who they are and what they do?
Back to the Barricades
A history of insurrectionary episodes by Eric Hazan.
Five Kinds of High-End-LA-centric Madness
In "West of Eden," LA's notable families spin fictions of happy family life, while the reality is generations of trustafarians raised by distracted wolves.
The State That I Am In: Hannah Arendt in America
How did the United States change Hannah Arendt? Richard King's ambitious new book is a welcome addition to a crowded scholarly field of works on Arendt.
Sociology’s Truth?: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Origins of Sociology
In "The Scholar Denied," Aldon Morris builds a case that Du Bois was the first major American "scientific" sociologist.
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