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January 14, 2014
Alice Robb
Why Are We Afraid of Spiders? There Are Two Competing Theories.
January 14, 2014
Hillary Kelly
The Women Who Changed Celebrity-Worship Forever
January 14, 2014
Paul Bloom
Did God Make These Babies Moral?
Intelligent Design's oldest attack on evolution is as popular as ever
January 13, 2014
Jed Perl
MoMA's Faux-Populist Expansion Makes it Look Like a Department Store
This is how you ruin a cultural institution
January 13, 2014
Alice Robb
Look to the Romans to Understand Hallucination
January 13, 2014
Laura Bennett
Last Night's Golden Globes Was The Best Kind of Awards Show
January 13, 2014
Esther Breger
Downton Abbey's Cheap Embrace of Rape as a Plot Device
Depictions of violence against women are all over highbrow TV. This was the worst example yet.
January 11, 2014
Richard Dawkins
This Organ Separates Humans From Animals
January 11, 2014
Ian Steadman
These Scientists Figured Out How to Make Objects Levitate
January 11, 2014
David Aaronovitch
The Reluctant Fundamentalist: How George Orwell Embraced England
January 10, 2014
Alice Robb
This Is Why We Go to Modern Art Museums
January 10, 2014
Irving Howe
The Old Magician
A defense of the late, scolding Tolstoy
January 10, 2014
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Six Dictators' Favorite Books
January 10, 2014
David Thomson
Hate Awards Season Frenzy? Blame the Golden Globes.
January 10, 2014
Marc Tracy
The New York Times Redesign Marks the Death of One of the Web's Most Annoying Features
January 10, 2014
John McWhorter
Internet-Speak is Improving English Because Empathy
The real significance of the new "because"
January 10, 2014
Laura Bennett
'Girls' Has Grown Up—And Isn't As Funny
How Lena Dunham's show went from a coming-of-age story to a comedy of manners
January 9, 2014
David Thomson
'The Wolf of Wall Street': No Moralizing, Great Filmmaking
Capitalist debauchery: It's the American way
January 9, 2014
Alice Robb
This Is What the Average Medical Marijuana User Looks Like
January 9, 2014
Adam Kirsch
Since When Is Philip Roth an Idol?
He went from bete noire to laureate. Why'd we lose track of his flaws?

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