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History May 17, 2017
To the Republic, for Which It Stands
The broad Trumpian vow to “Make America Great Again” chimed in near-perfect unison with the cultural offensives of the Christian right.
Chris Lehmann
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Biography October 4, 2016
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Language Arts February 5, 2014
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Economics September 10, 2013
Great Perturbations: On George Packer
The Unwinding is a fine-grained account of economic collapse that runs aground on causeless abstractions.
Chris Lehmann
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History November 28, 2012
Young and the Restless: On Brigham Young
How the American Moses became America’s first spiritual manager in the wilderness of Scripture-infused capitalism.
Chris Lehmann
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Business June 5, 2012
The Higher Bealism: The Moral Limits of Markets
Why are moral and political thinkers failing to engage with the true, dispiriting scale of market sovereignty?
Chris Lehmann
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Culture March 21, 2012
Winging It: The Battle Between Reagan and PATCO
The true economic legacy of the Reagan years is not tax cuts but union busting.
Chris Lehmann
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Culture June 7, 2011
Little Churches Everywhere: California’s Evangelical Conservatism
As contradictory as the gospel truths of California's digerati are the dogmas of West Coast evangelicalism, a melding of Jefferson and Jesus.
Chris Lehmann
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Cultural Criticism and Analysis March 3, 2011
An Accelerated Grimace: On Cyber-Utopianism
Clay Shirky's Cognitive Surplus is the latest monotonous revery about the Internet social revolution. Evgeny Morozov punctures that bubble.
Chris Lehmann
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Banking December 9, 2010
The Great Squid Hunt: On Matt Taibbi
In Griftopia Matt Taibbi argues that America has been corrupted by the merger of crime and policy, of stealing and government.
Chris Lehmann