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John Kenneth Galbraith was famous long ago as America’s most widely read economist, until his expansive understanding of economic liberalism was pushed aside by political events and conservativ

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At Pittsburgh’s Jefferson Elementary School, which overlooks the dark gray plumes from two electric power plants, there are so many children with asthma the school nurse alphabetizes the inhalers

The most important event of the late twentieth century began twenty years ago this month.

“You have to ask, Who would want this job?” So said a former senior CIA official referring to the new post of director of national intelligence, to which George W.

Mourning the loss of “moral values” voters, Democratic leaders have been softening the party’s language on reproductive rights.

It’s hard to know who to root against in the bloggers vs. CNN controversy that led to the resignation of CNN’s Eason Jordan, a twenty-three-year veteran of the network.

My friend L., a magistrate in Britain, is appalled by American-style sentencing, which has taken hold there recently.

The man who’s just been put in charge
Of knowing all will now assure us
That he knew nothing–nada, zip–
When he was stationed in Honduras.

Isaac Deutscher stands out among the early intellectual mentors of the New Left as the only one who expounded classical Marxism. On a mid-1960s “must read” authors list that included C.

Yiddish, a national language that never had a nation-state, may no longer have millions of speakers, but it remains contested territory nonetheless.

Fifty years ago, a young Polish journalist named Leopold Tyrmand lost his job at the country’s last surviving independent publication, the Catholic weekly Tygodnik Powszechny, which was

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