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March 21, 2018
Nina Renata Aron
The Spirit of the Left Bank
Agnes Poirier’s history of wartime Paris reads as an erudite and deeply satisfying gossip column.
April 19, 2015
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Michael Eric Dyson
The Ghost of Cornel West
What happened to America's most exciting black scholar?
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October 30, 2013
Marc Tracy
How a Crazy Senator Became a Sudden Darling of the Respectable Right
June 7, 2013
Marc Tracy
Why Do So Many Intellectuals Get Appointed as U.N. Ambassador?
June 4, 1956
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
The Plight of the American Intellectual
May 7, 1951
Nicola Chiaromonte
Letter from Paris: Gide, Sartre and Café Communism

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