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Book Reviews and Articles
James Wood, The New Yorker
Cricket makes this exquisitely written a large fictional achievement and one of the most remarkable post-colonial novels written to date.

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Around The Web
Robert Wright and Robert Kagan discuss
No! Such hysterical hand-wringing is as old as communication itself.
How a culture of “personal crisis” has transformed the GOP
Richard Dawkins presents the evidence for evolution.
Classics
Harvey J. Kaye: You want to understand the American experience? And why you hate injustice? Read Thomas Paine's

The BlogNotes on books & politics
by moscarpelli Feb 10, 2010
In his collection of essays Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food, Wendell Berry often contemplates the future of farming. He warns that the waning interest of young people...more

Progressive PUT DOWN
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The Right claims him as a Founding Father of Conservatism. But Edmund Burke is more interesting -- and less conservative -- than that.

Author Roundtable
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Todd Gitlin, Susan Neiman, Steven Lukes and others discuss the moral values that can reanimate the Left.

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Feb 10, 2010 
New Yorker staff writer George Packer and Todd Gitlin meet to discuss Packer's new book, Interesting Times, and the first decade of the 21st century.
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