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September 9, 2013
The New Republic Staff
Yes, Footage of Tolstoy Exists. Here It Is.
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September 6, 2013
Ryan Kearney
National Parks Are Popular With White People, But Not Minorities. Why?
September 5, 2013
Kent Russell
This Man Moved to a Desert Island to Disappear. Here's What Happened.
September 4, 2013
Leon Wieseltier
Crimes Against Humanities
Now science wants to invade the liberal arts. Don't let it happen.
September 2, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
Los Angeles is the Labor Movement's Great Success Story
August 29, 2013
Deirdre N. McCloskey
I Know What Chelsea Manning is Going Through
August 26, 2013
Noreen Malone
Millenials Will Run for Political Office, Like it Or Not
August 26, 2013
Philip Kennicott
America’s Orchestras are in Crisis
How an effort to popularize classical music undermines what makes orchestras great.
August 7, 2013
Steven Pinker
Science Is Not Your Enemy
An impassioned plea to neglected novelists, embattled professors, and tenure-less historians
August 7, 2013
Abraham Riesman
'You're Done Banging Superheroes, Baby'
How the sickest mind in comic books became their biggest star
August 7, 2013
Jackson Lears
Jackson Lears Responds to Steven Pinker's "Science Is Not Your Enemy"
July 25, 2013
Kenneth Burke
From the Stacks: “Why Coleridge?”
September 13, 1939
July 24, 2013
Jaroslaw Anders
Unsentimental Journey
Absurdism, modernity, and Eastern European identity in the work of Witold Gombrowicz
July 23, 2013
Manny Farber
From the Stacks: "Journey into the Night"
September 23, 1946
July 22, 2013
Marc Tracy
Nate Silver Speaks—and Reveals His Real Plan
July 22, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Detroit's Art is Worth More In the Museum than Out
July 21, 2013
Noam Scheiber
The Last Days of Big Law
The money is drying up—and America's most storied firms are terrified
July 18, 2013
Katha Pollitt
Rereading Jane Austen's Novels
July 10, 2013
Ben Crair
Screw Your Standing Desk!
A sitter's manifesto
June 14, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
Superbad
The puritanical undertones beneath the mess of 'Man of Steel'

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