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In The Conflict, the French intellectual takes American mothering to task.

Why are Yale and other top universities teaching a Grand Strategy seminar if the conditions that seemed to call for grand strategizing no longer exist?

A planet connected by wild weather.

How a confrontation is shaping up between the US/NATO and the BRICS.

Intent on blaming the cold war simply on Soviet perfidy, John Lewis Gaddis does a disservice to the subject of his biography—and to his readers.
 

Outrage over the surveillance of Muslim communities must be channeled into pressure to investigate—and end—the federally funded program.

Umar Farooq on NYPD spying, Victor Navasky on Italy’s Il Manifesto, Ruth Baldwin on Anthony Shadid and Jen Marlowe on supporting the family of Troy Davis

A case of scientific misconduct at Harvard.

Dwight Macdonald’s panic about Midcult now seems less prescient than misplaced.

Her Senate testimony made her into a feminist icon, but her new book underscores her enduring career as a professor and writer.