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April 5, 2017
What Did Equality Mean for the Founders?
Three new books on the early republic explore the critical, if contested, role equality has played in shaping American political culture.
Sophia Rosenfeld
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History March 1, 2017
The Only Thing More Dangerous Than Trump’s Appeal to Common Sense Is His Dismissal of It
The president’s taste for fact-free fantasy is based not in traditional American populism but in authoritarianism.
Sophia Rosenfeld
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Health and Disease April 14, 2015
How to Die
Atul Gawande argues that physicians should focus care on the good life—including its very end.
Sophia Rosenfeld
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Language Arts June 3, 2014
Free to Choose?
How Americans have become tyrannized by the culture’s overinvestment in choice.
Sophia Rosenfeld
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Culture August 22, 2012
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