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September 12, 2013
The New Republic Staff
From the Video Vault: David Foster Wallace Delivers the Kenyon Commencement Speech
September 11, 2013
Adam Kirsch
Thomas Pynchon Takes on September 11
September 11, 2013
Noreen Malone
Is New York City Puritanical?
September 11, 2013
Tevi Troy
FDR's Secret Weapon for Winning the Presidency
September 10, 2013
Tevi Troy
John Tyler’s Love of Shakespeare
September 9, 2013
The New Republic Staff
Yes, Footage of Tolstoy Exists. Here It Is.
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September 6, 2013
Ryan Kearney
National Parks Are Popular With White People, But Not Minorities. Why?
September 5, 2013
Kent Russell
This Man Moved to a Desert Island to Disappear. Here's What Happened.
September 4, 2013
Leon Wieseltier
Crimes Against Humanities
Now science wants to invade the liberal arts. Don't let it happen.
September 2, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
Los Angeles is the Labor Movement's Great Success Story
August 29, 2013
Deirdre N. McCloskey
I Know What Chelsea Manning is Going Through
August 26, 2013
Noreen Malone
Millenials Will Run for Political Office, Like it Or Not
August 26, 2013
Philip Kennicott
America’s Orchestras are in Crisis
How an effort to popularize classical music undermines what makes orchestras great.
August 7, 2013
Steven Pinker
Science Is Not Your Enemy
An impassioned plea to neglected novelists, embattled professors, and tenure-less historians
August 7, 2013
Abraham Riesman
'You're Done Banging Superheroes, Baby'
How the sickest mind in comic books became their biggest star
August 7, 2013
Jackson Lears
Jackson Lears Responds to Steven Pinker's "Science Is Not Your Enemy"
July 25, 2013
Kenneth Burke
From the Stacks: “Why Coleridge?”
September 13, 1939
July 24, 2013
Jaroslaw Anders
Unsentimental Journey
Absurdism, modernity, and Eastern European identity in the work of Witold Gombrowicz
July 23, 2013
Manny Farber
From the Stacks: "Journey into the Night"
September 23, 1946
July 22, 2013
Marc Tracy
Nate Silver Speaks—and Reveals His Real Plan

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