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Hopes for reform in Burma are starting to be fulfilled, but skepticism of its rulers is still warranted.

Denialists are dead wrong about the science. But they understand something the left still doesn’t get about the revolutionary meaning of climate change.

From Pearl Harbor to 9/11, every single chapter in the history of the extension of US power has opened with the same sentence: “Innocent Americans were treacherously attacked…”

The building of the transcontinental railroads is not the story of a managerial revolution, argues Richard White, but of incompetence and corruption rewarded.

The delusion of a classless society in which opportunity is equally distributed is the most effective deception perpetrated by our moneyed elite.

The revolution is far from over.

Celebrity messiahs have come to redeem our country, not govern it (and don’t forget Marilyn and Elvis and Jackie O and Diana and Oprah and Brangelina and David Hasselhoff).

Remembering Ben Sonnenberg (1936–2010)—writer, publisher, boulevardier—and his quarterly, Grand Street.

The double book-keeping of Christopher Hitchens.

Like the terrorist, the sex offender is a new category of human being.