June 7, 2010 Issue
Cover art by: Cover illustration by Doug Chayka, design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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Editorial
What We’ve Become
Three thousand Americans, imprisoned for being "sexually dangerous," are locked up not for what they’ve done but for what someone fears they will do.
JoAnn Wypijewski
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Whacking the Old Folks
Will Social Security become President Obama’s sacrificial lamb?
William Greider
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Any Given Sunday
We can’t get financial reform on the scale we need without embarrassing people.
Chris Hayes
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Primary Colors
After May 18’s primaries, it’s clear: despite all the Tea Party talk, there’s as much turbulence among Democrats as Republicans.
The Editors
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Column
She-Lawyers and Other Improbable Creatures
We’re not anxious about whether Elena Kagan is gay. We’re anxious about whether she’s masculine.
Patricia J. Williams
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Books & the Arts
Eyes Wide Open
For Herta Müller, writing is not a matter of trusting, but rather of the honesty of the deceit.
Lorna Scott Fox
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Imperfect Cinemas
Post-independence cinema in Nigeria has been swept aside by Nollywood, a video CD industry with a cable-access aesthetic and a penchant for stories about violence and corruption.
Emily Witt
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Garbage and Gravitas
Ayn Rand was a melodramatist of the moral life: the battle is between the producer and the moochers, and it must end in life or death.
Corey Robin
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Stories and Legends
How Barack Obama has fashioned a personal and political identity by treating the history of the civil rights movement as a usable past.
Thomas J. Sugrue
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Scoured Light
Nothing is simple in the poems of James Schuyler, not even the formal austerity of looking out a window.
Ange Mlinko
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Talking On Against Time
Though a new four-volume compilation of Paris Review interviews is filled with riches, it is tailored to the tastes of a polite literary culture.
Scott Sherman
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Letters
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