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White Christmas and Black December
The #BlackLivesMatter movement, and the deaths that spurred it, should make all of us who celebrate ask: What does Christmas mean this year? And what should it mean?
Politics
"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins
Schumpeter and Me
Tom Streithorst unravels the myths of modern economics.
Holy Terrors
"The weighty task of wrenching terrorism and martyrdom apart and policing the divide between them takes place on a daily basis in news commentary and water cooler conversation."
Perpetual War for a Perpetual Piece (of the Action)
The bad news from one of the finest national security journalists working today.
Channeling the Emotion of the Moment
Nine years after the empty fruit bowl, “My Story” is a highly calculated act of self-presentation.
Every Which Way but Regulated: The “Free Market” Trucking Industry
No longer home to the open-road outlaws and concrete cowboys of the ’70s, becoming a trucker is now the equivalent of operating a sweatshop on wheels thanks to deregulation.
Aristocrats of “Merit”
Tyler Cowen’s "Average Is Over"
Foucault’s Risks
Writing in the same year that Thatcher was elected, Foucault described a nascent neoliberalism now in its mature state. For three graduate students born in a post-Reagan America, there can be no doubt that Foucault’s thinking describes their present.
A Place in the Making
"The events in Ukraine have expanded the meaning of maidan from that of geographical location (just an empty piece of land) to a term with symbolical status: now maidan stands for independence, liberty, and autonomy."
The Art of Cultivating Friends
Bob Ames was an American who understood Arab culture, who could befriend Arabs.
19th Century Paris: Terrorism's Training Ground
1894 marked an exceptional harvest of one of the most notable isms to take root in French soil: anarchism.
Camp David: The Past and Future of Peace
Israelis, Egyptians, and Americans were secluded at Camp David for 13 painstaking, frustrating, and very nearly fruitless days in September 1978.
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