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When we put our faith in civil society, we are grasping at straws.

What happens to a leading Marxist writer after he gets a MacArthur genius grant, a Getty Fellowship, and his new book hits number one on the nonfiction bestseller list?

As the impeachment trial was slouching toward completion, another issue began rising in prominence: Can Bill Clinton be indicted while he’s President?

In The Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu draws a distinction that is useful in thinking about the impeachment of Bill Clinton.

A short walk from my home in New Haven stands the farm of that prototypical Connecticut Yankee, Eli Whitney. In 1798 Whitney hit on a bold new scheme: interchangeable parts for muskets.

It might make sense to end it now, except
That wouldn’t show the managers respect.
So even if their case now seems inert,

Time magazine once diagnosed newspaper columnist, author, professor-at-large and Hugh Hefner sidekick Max Lerner (1902­92) as suffering from a “crush on America.” Seven

When a young woman in high school frets about the folks in Mogadishu–when, for that matter, she can spell “Mogadishu”–American moviegoers know she needs a fashion makeover, a boyfriend and an

On the eve of the New York premiere of his Symphony No.