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February 5, 2014
Jed Perl
Legends of the Gay Art Underground
Two new shows highlight the hedonist asceticism of 1950s Bohemians
February 4, 2014
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan Reflects On 1992, The Year Of The Woman
February 4, 2014
Marc Tracy
Arthur Chu's ‘Jeopardy!’ Tactics Aren’t New. I Lost Because of Them.
February 4, 2014
Christopher Beam
China Wants to Build a Better Facebook
Is WeChat out-innovating other social networks?
February 4, 2014
Eric Sasson
Don't Express Doubt About Woody Allen's Guilt, or These Columnists Will Condemn You
February 4, 2014
Alice Robb
Family Wealth Lasts For Ten To Fifteen Generations
An Interview with Gregory Clark, historian of social mobility
February 4, 2014
Sacha Z. Scoblic
Could Drug-Replacement Therapy Have Saved Philip Seymour Hoffman's Life?
February 4, 2014
Julia Ioffe
Why Did Someone Put a Giant Wooden Cock on a Kremlin Critic's Car?
February 4, 2014
Adam Kirsch
Germans Make a Sympathetic TV Series about WWII. What Could Go Wrong?
The well-intentioned, deeply troubling hear of "Generation War"
February 4, 2014
Laura Bennett
TV's Boring Obsession With Accidental Viral Video Stars
February 3, 2014
Alice Robb
A New Study Says Medical Marijuana Reduces Suicide
February 3, 2014
Nora Caplan-Bricker
The Real Reason Abortion Has Declined
It's not due to harsh new laws in many states—not yet, anyway
February 3, 2014
John McWhorter
Let's Stop Pretending That French Is an Important Language
February 2, 2014
Max Avdeev
There's One Odd Thing Missing from the Home of the Winter Olympics
February 2, 2014
David Thomson
Philip Seymour Hoffman: 1967-2014
February 1, 2014
Philip Kennicott
The Minor Greatness of Benjamin Britten
How did England's best composer accomplish so much when he aimed for so little?
February 1, 2014
Andrew Hussey
Meet the Anti-Semitic French Comedian Who Invented the Quenelle
February 1, 2014
Ian Steadman
Stephen Hawking Stopped Believing in Black Holes
February 1, 2014
Isaac Chotiner
Charlie Crist's Achingly Bad Search for Self
February 1, 2014
Simon Heffer
What Really Happened at the Battle of Waterloo

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