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An online dustup between two pop star penseurs shows them staggering through afterlives.
The cameras no longer look at us because we’re famous; we’re famous because they look at us to death.
No one dies for poetry anymore, not even in Russia. Enter the oligarchs, who steer clear of Putin’s ire by sponsoring literary prizes.
Books about London in its Olympic year and after see Americanization eroding the city’s gift for democratic gradualism.
For Betty Friedan, feminism was humanism: a question of growth, maturation and identity.
Why privacy and anonymity are being violated online by an unstoppable process of data profiling.
On socialism or the Middle East, Fred Halliday’s intellectual flexibility was one of his greatest strengths.
How the American right’s obsession with male status legitimated the transition to a neoliberal ethos.
The students at Bunker Hill Community College may have difficult lives. But the best are as bright as any Ivy Leaguer.
Brad Gregory wants to upend how we think about the emergence of capitalism, secularism and individualism.
