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Home » New Republic

Tag: New Republic

Posted inArts & Culture

A guide to fact-checking arrives at the perfect time

by Aimee Levitt October 19, 2016August 18, 2021

Brooke Borel and the University of Chicago Press release a fitting book for a presidential election full of falsehoods.

Posted inNews & Politics

I’m voting for Hillary Clinton, but I don’t vote with my vagina

by Julia Weiss July 14, 2016August 18, 2021

I’m voting for Clinton with a brain that understands what having a vagina means.

Posted inBlogs

Should prostitution be less illegal—or more?

by Michael Miner September 1, 2015August 18, 2021

An argument against prostitution in the New Republic is mangled by a weak sentence.

Posted inBlogs

Cecil the lion and everything else that’s wrong with the world

by Michael Miner July 30, 2015August 18, 2021

Is Cecil the lion a small part of a big picture?

Posted inBlogs

It’s getting harder to snicker at Obamacare

by Michael Miner April 24, 2014August 18, 2021

A rare editorial cartoon defending Obamacare shows up in the Chicago Tribune.

Posted inBlogs

Michael Kinsley’s takedown of Double Down is a plea for plain English

by Steve Bogira November 13, 2013August 19, 2021

You might like the juicy new account of the 2012 presidential campaign if you can cut through its chasmal noisesomeness.

Posted inBlogs

Should Prince Charles step up and step down?

by Michael Miner April 2, 2013August 19, 2021

On Prince Charles and the crown

Posted inBlogs

A president shall be forged in the loins of the nation’s breadbasket

by Sam Worley November 6, 2012August 19, 2021

. . . or whatever. On the fetishization of small-town life.

Posted inBlogs

On David Sedaris, John McIlwraith, and NPR monologues

by Michael Miner May 18, 2012August 19, 2021

Make us laugh, and don’t try anything funny: David Sedaris, John McIlwraith, and NPR monologues

Posted inBlogs

Alinsky and Gingrich—separated at mirth? Alinsky’s son speaks

by Michael Miner January 30, 2012August 19, 2021

David Alinsky sees some of his father’s tactics in the right’s attacks on his father

Posted inBlogs

A couple of judges on criminal justice

by Michael Miner November 30, 2011August 19, 2021

John Paul Stevens and Richard J. Posner review William Stuntz’s “The Collapse of American Criminal Justice.”

Posted inBlogs

A new interest in the economy

by Steve Bogira August 30, 2011August 19, 2021

On Obama’s coming jobs speech, another stimulus, and the need to bone up on economics.

Posted inBlogs

Christendom’s split personality

by Harold Henderson December 11, 2006August 19, 2021

A U. of C. scholar discusses how Christianity simultaneously condemns and endorses violence.

Posted inBlogs

God as a hypothesis, not a delusion

by Harold Henderson October 25, 2006August 19, 2021

Thomas Nagel beats up on Richard Dawkins, and finds himself conscripted into the religious gang.

Posted inBlogs

Edward O. Wilson hasn’t been to church in a while

by Harold Henderson September 7, 2006August 19, 2021

Are we really “all humanists in the broadest sense”? Or do we just wish we were?

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