Brooke Borel and the University of Chicago Press release a fitting book for a presidential election full of falsehoods.
Tag: New Republic
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I’m voting for Hillary Clinton, but I don’t vote with my vagina
I’m voting for Clinton with a brain that understands what having a vagina means.
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Should prostitution be less illegal—or more?
An argument against prostitution in the New Republic is mangled by a weak sentence.
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Cecil the lion and everything else that’s wrong with the world
Is Cecil the lion a small part of a big picture?
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It’s getting harder to snicker at Obamacare
A rare editorial cartoon defending Obamacare shows up in the Chicago Tribune.
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Michael Kinsley’s takedown of Double Down is a plea for plain English
You might like the juicy new account of the 2012 presidential campaign if you can cut through its chasmal noisesomeness.
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A president shall be forged in the loins of the nation’s breadbasket
. . . or whatever. On the fetishization of small-town life.
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On David Sedaris, John McIlwraith, and NPR monologues
Make us laugh, and don’t try anything funny: David Sedaris, John McIlwraith, and NPR monologues
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Alinsky and Gingrich—separated at mirth? Alinsky’s son speaks
David Alinsky sees some of his father’s tactics in the right’s attacks on his father
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A couple of judges on criminal justice
John Paul Stevens and Richard J. Posner review William Stuntz’s “The Collapse of American Criminal Justice.”
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A new interest in the economy
On Obama’s coming jobs speech, another stimulus, and the need to bone up on economics.
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Christendom’s split personality
A U. of C. scholar discusses how Christianity simultaneously condemns and endorses violence.
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God as a hypothesis, not a delusion
Thomas Nagel beats up on Richard Dawkins, and finds himself conscripted into the religious gang.
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Edward O. Wilson hasn’t been to church in a while
Are we really “all humanists in the broadest sense”? Or do we just wish we were?