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August 17, 2009

Today At Tnr (august 17, 2009)

Meet Tim Geither’s Wall St. Consigliere: How Queasy Should Lee Sachs’s Influence Make Us? by Noam Scheiber
How Europe Will Undermine Obama’s Iran Policy, by Benjamin Weinthal
Why The ‘National Review’ Would Have Loved Zora Neale Hurston, by John McWhorter
Terminally Hip: What New York’s Recent Exhibitions Can Tell Us About The Art World’s Malaise, by Jed Perl
TNRtv: The Reviews I Wish I Hadn’t Written, by Stanley Kauffmann
Why Should Obama Save Darfur? To Be Crass For A Moment: It’s Good Politics, by Barron YoungSmith

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