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February 12, 2014
Jerry A. Coyne
It’s Darwin’s Birthday, and People Still Don’t Accept Evolution
A letter written on the occasion of Charles Darwin's 200th birthday.
February 12, 2014
Niles Eldridge
"Scientific Creationism" Is Still Fantasy
On Darwin's birthday, a defense of his greatest theory
February 12, 2014
Alice Robb
Shirley Temple Only Dated Her Husband for 12 Days
Research shows the longer you date, the happier your marriage. Unless you're Shirley Temple.
February 11, 2014
Jed Perl
Matthew Barney's New Epic Is a Mythomaniacal Mailer-Hemingway Mash-Up
And he's more scatological than ever
February 11, 2014
Emmett Rensin
'The Lego Movie' Isn't Just Anti-Capitalist. It's Anti-Fox, Too.
February 11, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Are Republicans Afraid to Talk About Michael Sam?
February 11, 2014
William H. Pritchard
Was Sylvia Plath Just A "Minor Poet"?
February 11, 2014
Michael Kazin
The Civil Rights Act Was Not As Important As You Think
It was what came after that changed everything
February 11, 2014
Eric Sasson
If Michael Sam Isn't Drafted, Don't Just Blame the NFL. Blame the Media, Too.
February 11, 2014
Julia Ioffe
Two Russian Women on a Sochi Train
February 11, 2014
David Thomson
Shirley Temple Sold the Idea That a Cute Kid Had the Cure for the Great Depression
February 11, 2014
Julia Ioffe
Petty Corruption Has Killed the Great Russian Athletic Machine
February 11, 2014
Robert Hatch
Shirley Temple Was 'Pure Star'
February 11, 2014
Julia Ioffe
Horror Story III: The Elevators of Sochi
February 11, 2014
Isaac Chotiner
Secularism Is Good for America—Especially Christians
February 11, 2014
Paul Berman
The True Story of America's First Black Female Slave Novelist
The woman behind 'The Bondwoman's Narrative'
February 10, 2014
Alice Robb
Let's Not Wage War on Smokers
Quitting smoking is good. Stigmatizing smokers isn't.
February 10, 2014
Julia Ioffe
Russian Olympian Irina Rodnina Blames Racist Obama Tweet on a Hacker
February 10, 2014
Marc Tracy
Which Team Would Draft Openly Gay Player Michael Sam?
February 10, 2014
Irving Howe
Boris Pasternak Lived In The Wrong Century
Irving Howe on the tragedy of our twentieth-century Tolstoy

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