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November 19, 2015
Letters From the December 7, 2015, Issue
Quantum of science… misreading progress… crack up, fall down…
Our Readers and David Rieff
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Ethical EconomicsOctober 1, 2015
Philanthrocapitalism: A Self-Love Story
Why do super-rich activists mock their critics instead of listening to them?
David Rieff
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FilmNovember 19, 2013
Hannah and Her Admirers
Margarethe von Trotta’s biopic of Hannah Arendt is a film about ideas that remains intellectually detached from them.
David Rieff
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Autobiography and MemoirJune 13, 2012
A Vast Choir of Voices: On Claude Lanzmann
In his memoir, The Patagonian Hare, the Shoah director’s life upstages his masterwork.
David Rieff
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CultureOctober 5, 2011
The Wrong Moral Revolution: On Michael Barnett
To see humanitarianism everywhere is not to see it at all.
David Rieff
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CultureFebruary 17, 2011
Where Hunger Goes: On the Green Revolution
Nick Cullather’s The Hungry World teaches us that US agricultural assistance in Asia during the cold war was a Green Counterrevolution.
David Rieff
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September 27, 2006
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Foreign PolicyJune 15, 2006
We Are the World
When liberals and conservatives discuss the United States’ role in the world, they are really talking about the narcissism of small differences. Two new books show how both sides share a conviction in American exceptionalism.
David Rieff
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Non-fictionJuly 14, 2005
No Exit Strategy
Two new books examine what went wrong in the planning and conduct of the war in Iraq.
David Rieff
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PoliticsFebruary 4, 1999
The False Dawn of Civil Society
When we put our faith in civil society, we are grasping at straws.
David Rieff