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September 7, 2014
Sean Wilentz
Why Has the American Literary Canon Admitted So Few Historians?
Two mid-century scholars are finally getting their due
September 6, 2014
Ian McEwan
The Heartwrenching Court Cases That Inspired My New Novel
September 6, 2014
Bryan Appleyard
The New Luddites: Why Former Digital Prophets Are Turning Against Tech
September 5, 2014
Alice Lee
Gender Quotas Worked in Norway. Why Not Here?
September 5, 2014
Esther Breger
Joan Rivers Didn't Care If You Liked It
Her feminism and misogyny were impossible for young women to reconcile
September 5, 2014
Elaine Teng
This Is the Most Diverse Apartment Building in America
And here are the surprising lessons it teaches us about gentrification.
September 4, 2014
Steven Pinker
The Trouble With Harvard
The Ivy League is broken and only standardized tests can fix it
September 4, 2014
The New Republic Staff
President Clinton to Keynote The New Republic’s Centennial Gala
September 3, 2014
Adam Kirsch
The Metaphysical Case for Abolishing Political Parties
Do political parties corrupt the souls of their members?
September 3, 2014
Richard D. Kahlenberg
Want to Fix Obama's Bad Education Policy? Start With These Two New Books
The problem with the Left's embrace of center-Right policies
September 3, 2014
Esther Breger
Whit Stillman: Why I Love Working With Amazon
September 3, 2014
Kent Russell
We Are Entering the Age of Alzheimer's
You and everyone you know will be touched by the disease. How are we going to get through this?
September 2, 2014
Yishai Schwartz
The Nude Celebrity Photo Theft Should Scare You More Than the NSA Does
September 1, 2014
Naomi Shavin
The Ten Worst-Paying Jobs in America
From fry cooks to the guy parking cars
September 1, 2014
Alice Robb
Science Does Not Support the 'Rule of Seven' for Relationships
Chris Martin and Jennifer Lawrence are fine
September 1, 2014
Jan Nijman and Michael Shin
Miami Is the #1 Airport in America for Shipping Dead Foreigners. Here's What It Costs to Fly a Corpse Home.
August 31, 2014
Tracey Thorn
I Didn't Realize How Addicted My Kids Were to Sugar—Until I Took It Away
August 31, 2014
Deborah L. Rhode
Hooters Hires Based on Looks. So Do Many Companies. And There's No Law Against It.
August 30, 2014
Leo Robson
How Scientists Captured the Brains of Amis and McEwan
August 30, 2014
Sarah Williams Goldhagen
The Great Architect Rebellion of 2014
This year's Venice Bienale demolishes the popular notion of modernism in architecture

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