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Arts & Letters Daily (29 Aug 2008)
In the 1949 Revolution, a few Americans went to China to help build the Maoist dream. Sixty years later, one of them is still there... more
Emily Dickinson's gnomic poems go down like shots of triple-distilled whiskey. After the jolt, they radiate... more
Vladimir Putin enters the picture, seeking to salvage Russia from the chaos and mass poverty of the Yeltsin era. Oil helped him out... more
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Arts & Letters Daily (28 Aug 2008)
Is there a performance drug that could actually increase the fairness of sports contests? Yes, there is. Carl Elliott on beta blockers... more
The tabloids create an alternative universe each week for four or five million people clutching their quarters at supermarket check-out racks... more
"Faith depends upon belief in things that cannot be proved," says P.J. O'Rourke, "and I can prove that more people flunk physics than flunk Sunday School"... more
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Arts & Letters Daily (27 Aug 2008)
The Cuban judge sat with his feet up on the desk reading a comic book. The sentence for opposing the Revolution: thirty years... more
Most conquerors try to convert their subjects. Hitler's empire was built on the idea of exterminating the natives... more
We Americans can adjust our compass heading, says John Lewis Gaddis, if we can make ending tyranny once again our priority, as it was through most of our history... more
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Arts & Letters Daily (26 Aug 2008)
The mini-cow is the solution to rising food prices. No taller than a German shepherd, it gives 16 pints of milk a day. Plus, it mows the lawn... more
Going Off the Rawls. How libertarians have adopted the liberal left's favorite modern philosopher... more
Should British teachers accept student's spelling misstakes merely as "variant spellings," or does this denigrate Trooth in education?... more
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Arts & Letters Daily (25 Aug 2008)
Hans Monderman loved cars. But he wondered if mature automobile societies could, in essence, act like adults. He was the Traffic Guru... more
Samuel Pepys: intelligent, curious, decent, and diligent, with an abiding interest in music, food, women and the life of the city... more
"I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not." W.E.B. Du Bois's words declaim in a way that echoes that most extraordinary of poets, John Milton... more
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