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August 27, 2012
The Mirage of Our Lives
In Dave Eggers’ “A Hologram for the King,” an ordinary man comes to realize that managers like him who made outsourcing possible will be discarded as human refuse now that the globalization process is complete, left to wander like ghosts among the ruins.
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August 27, 2012 GOP Ghosts in Tampa
August 20, 2012
The War in the Shadows
There are now many thousands of clandestine operatives, nearly all of them armed and equipped with a license to kidnap, torture and kill, working overseas or domestically with little or no oversight and virtually no transparency.
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August 13, 2012
Criminalizing Dissent
The very name of the law itself—the Homeland Battlefield Bill—suggests the totalitarian credo of endless war waged against enemies within “the homeland” as well as those abroad.
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August 6, 2012
The Science of Genocide
On this day in 1945 the United States demonstrated that it was as morally bankrupt as the Nazi machine it had recently vanquished and the Soviet regime with which it was allied.
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July 30, 2012
The Perversion of Scholarship
Fraternities, sororities and football, along with other outsized athletic programs, have decimated most major American universities.
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NYPD vs. Occupy: Cops Out of Control
July 23, 2012
The Careerists
The greatest crimes of human history are made possible by the most colorless human beings.
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July 16, 2012
The Battle of Blair Mountain
There are still bullets in the ground where working people in the 1920s staged the largest armed insurrection in the United States since the Civil War.
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July 9, 2012
How to Think
If universities think a Milton Friedman or a Friedrich Hayek is more important than a Virginia Woolf or an Anton Chekhov, then we become barbarians.
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July 2, 2012
Time to Get Crazy
There are few resistance figures in American history as noble as Crazy Horse.
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June 28, 2012
The Righteous Road to Ruin
Jonathan Haidt, who believes we are hard-wired to be selfish, mistakes conformity and obedience to authority for the moral life in his new book, “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion.”
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