Lauren Berlant

Lauren Berlant teaches English and Gender Studies at the University of Chicago. Her most recent book is The Female Complaint: the Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture. She also edited, with Lisa Duggan,Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and the National Interest.

Currently

  • Against Sexual Scandal

    March 12, 2008

    In just two days, Eliot Spitzer went from white knight to shamed ex-governor. But the real loser in all of this is sex itself.

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Blogs

» Editor's Cut

Around the Nation | The week we went Rouge. Plus, Moyers on Afghanistan.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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» The Beat

Health Care Bill Advances, as Harry Reid Trumps Sarah Palin | The death panelist-in-chief rallied her followers to "KILL THE BILL." But 60 senators decided to follow the real leader.
John Nichols
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» The Notion

Palin as the Church Lady | Going Rogue book tour brings passive-aggressive rightwing Christianity to the fore.
Leslie Savan
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» Altercation

Slacker Friday | The "Second Amendment" sale; the raving paranoids of the right.
Eric Alterman

» The Dreyfuss Report

Chongqing: Socialism in One City | China is managing the most important event in the world: the urbanization of half a billion people. Fast.
Robert Dreyfuss
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» Act Now!

Toward Copenhagen | A guide to joining the movement against climate change.
Peter Rothberg
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