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The False Claims for Austerity

Paul Krugman

Why did the austerians get such a powerful grip on elite opinion in the first place?

The Saga of the Flaming Zucchini

Jenny Uglow

Bee Wilson’s 'Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat'

How to Succeed in Business

Anne Applebaum

Sheryl Sandberg's 'Lean In' and Hanna Rosin's 'The End of Men'

I never learned to type. The best I can do is hunt and peck with two fingers while looking at the keyboard. Instead of touch-typing, I was taught how to work with metal: shape flashings, solder wires, drill into tin. My fifth-grade teacher, Mrs. L., divided the class into those able to undertake a so-called “academic curriculum” and ultimately attend college, and those like me, only fit for vocational training, destined to work in factories or repair shops. Mrs. L. made clear to us what marked a promising student: neat penmanship, proper posture, and sharp attention to her lessons. It did not take her long to conclude that I lacked all of these indicators.

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MoMA: A Needless Act of Destruction

Martin Filler
Demolishing the American Folk Art Museum

An Original Thinker of Our Time

Cass R. Sunstein
Jeremy Adelman's 'Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman'

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Andrew O’Hagan
The moral legacy of Margaret Thatcher

He Conceived the Mathematics of Roughness

Jim Holt
Benoit Mandelbrot's 'The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick'

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The Debt We Shouldn’t Pay

Robert Kuttner
David Graeber's 'Debt: The First 5,000 Years'

On Anthony Lewis (1927–2013)

David Cole
A path-breaking journalist who was the nation’s most consistent voice for justice for over half a century

Pinning Down Spartacus

Mary Beard
If his uprising was not an early example of class warfare, then what was driving Spartacus?

The Real Karl Marx

John Gray
Jonathan Sperber’s 'Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life'

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Scientology: The Story

Diane Johnson
Lawrence Wright’s 'Going Clear' and Jenna Miscavige Hill's 'Beyond Belief'

The National Digital Public Library Is Launched!

Robert Darnton
The utopian and pragmatic Digital Public Library of America

Vichy Lives!—In a Way

Robert O. Paxton
The legacy of the Vichy regime in modern France

How Animals May Cause the Next Big One

Florence Williams
David Quammen's 'Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic'

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Surrealism Made Fresh

Sanford Schwartz
Rediscovering a movement that was romantic and revolutionary in its goals

What Rules Should Govern US Drone Attacks?

Kenneth Roth
Any program that kills on the basis of secret intelligence risks abuse. We need clear limits in the law.

Afghanistan: The Way to Peace

Anatol Lieven

Beethoven and the Quality of Courage

Daniel Barenboim
A composer unafraid of going to the edge of the precipice

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Paul Hazard
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Alexander Vvedensky: An Invitation for Me to Think
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Renata Adler
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Benoit Mandelbrot's 'The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick'

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David Graeber's 'Debt: The First 5,000 Years'

David Cole
A path-breaking journalist who was the nation’s most consistent voice for justice for over half a century

Mary Beard
If his uprising was not an early example of class warfare, then what was driving Spartacus?

John Gray
Jonathan Sperber’s 'Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life'

Diane Johnson
Lawrence Wright’s 'Going Clear' and Jenna Miscavige Hill's 'Beyond Belief'

Robert Darnton
The utopian and pragmatic Digital Public Library of America

Robert O. Paxton
The legacy of the Vichy regime in modern France

Florence Williams
David Quammen's 'Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic'

Sanford Schwartz
Rediscovering a movement that was romantic and revolutionary in its goals

Kenneth Roth
Any program that kills on the basis of secret intelligence risks abuse. We need clear limits in the law.

Daniel Barenboim
A composer unafraid of going to the edge of the precipice