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The Doubling: Chapters 1-15

November 17, 2016 02:51PM

The Humanities in Crisis: What Went Wrong and How to Restore Their Centrality in our Daily Lives, Part 3

December 12, 2015 04:01AM

The Humanities in Crisis: What Went Wrong and How to Restore Their Centrality in our Daily Lives, Part 2

November 08, 2015 02:58AM

The Humanities in Crisis: What Went Wrong and How to Restore Their Centrality in our Daily Lives, Part 1

October 03, 2015 06:41AM

Commencement Speakers, Academic Freedom, and the Pursuit of Excellence

April 09, 2015 03:19AM

The Crisis in the Humanities: Why Today's Educational and Cultural Experts Can't and Won't Resolve the Failings of the Liberal Arts

May 28, 2014 12:00AM

Leibovich's This Town: The Tittle-Tattle Flibbertigibbet Musing of a Fashionisto Political Reporter in the Washington Beltway

October 26, 2013 06:29PM

Reading and Thinking Critically in the Age of Disputation, Part III

August 14, 2013 12:38AM

Reading and Thinking Critically in the Age of Disputation, Part II

July 14, 2013 04:47PM

Reading and Thinking Critically in the Age of Disputation, Part I

June 01, 2013 12:36AM

Obama's Second Term: DDG (Deadlock, Debt, & Guns)

December 29, 2012 10:04PM

Obama's 2012 Victory: The Demographic Becomes the Narrative

November 30, 2012 10:21PM

What's Memoir Got to Do with It? The 2012 Presidential Election: Fiction Versus Reality, Part 2, Romney

October 28, 2012 10:37PM

What's Memoir Got to Do with It? The 2012 Presidential Election: Fiction Versus Reality, Part 1, Obama

September 26, 2012 04:45PM

Righteous Battles: The Foundations of Political Warfare in the 2012 Presidential Election

August 11, 2012 12:41AM

The Loss of an Authoritative Culture in America and Its Impact on the Aspirational Middlebrow Reader, Part III

July 01, 2012 07:42PM

The Loss of an Authoritative Culture in America and Its Impact on the Aspirational Middlebrow Reader, Part II

June 13, 2012 01:23AM

The Loss of an Authoritative Culture in America and Its Impact on the Aspirational Middlebrow Reader, Part I

May 01, 2012 02:37AM

Romanticism, Existentialism, and the Postmodern Cult of Self

December 08, 2011 04:13PM

Literature’s Nobel Prize and the Case—Or Not—for Insularity

October 14, 2011 05:26PM

Twilight, Harry Potter, and the Youthful Reader: Morality, Gender, and $$$s in Today's Fantasy Blockbusters

August 18, 2011 01:26AM

BookExpo America, 2011: The State of the Book

June 05, 2011 11:10PM

Reinventing America in the Aftermath of the 2010 Midterm Elections—the Greatest Reality Show on Earth

November 29, 2010 02:28PM

The Influences Driving Obama's Narrative: What's at Stake in the Civil War Between Democrats and Republicans in the 2010 Elections

October 21, 2010 02:10PM

What Do Carl Schmitt’s "The Concept of the Political" and Saul Alinsky’s "Rules for Radicals" Reveal About the Obama Narrative?

September 21, 2010 01:13AM

The Great Books and Cultural Identity: The Rise and Fall of Western Memory and Its Implications for Our Time, Part III

August 29, 2010 10:49PM

The Great Books and Cultural Identity: The Rise and Fall of Western Memory and Its Implications for Our Time, Part II

July 14, 2010 01:07AM

The Great Books and Cultural Identity: The Rise and Fall of Western Memory and Its Implications for Our Time, Part I

June 20, 2010 09:07PM

Watchmen, Superhero Comics, and the Loss of Consciousness

May 17, 2009 03:31PM

Solzhenitsyn, Truth, & the Dismal Fate of Literature in the 21st Century, Part III

April 17, 2009 04:34PM

Solzhenitsyn, Truth, & the Dismal Fate of Literature in the 21st Century, Part II

March 15, 2009 11:38PM

Solzhenitsyn, Truth, & the Dismal Fate of Literature in the 21st Century, Part 1

February 19, 2009 12:35AM

Journalism in the Age of the Internet

January 04, 2009 08:51PM

Barack Obama's Postmodern Presidency and the Implications for Policy

December 03, 2008 11:45PM

Obama's 2008 Victory and the End of Bamidbar (Wandering in the Wilderness)

November 05, 2008 12:22AM

The Sarah Palin Effect

October 19, 2008 10:00PM

Storytelling, Memoir, and the 2008 Presidential Election

September 17, 2008 12:28AM

Politics & Literature: Framing the Political Narrative for Victory in the 2008 Presidential Election

August 20, 2008 12:44AM

Ian McEwan's Incredibly Shrinking Member

July 15, 2008 12:53PM

Junot Diaz: Not Your Average Homeboy

June 12, 2008 02:20PM

Academe, Theory, and our Cultural Demise

May 12, 2008 02:52PM

Norman Mailer: "History as a Novel/The Novel as History," Part III, The Implications for Literature

April 21, 2008 02:05AM

Norman Mailer: "History as a Novel/The Novel as History," Part II

March 25, 2008 11:34PM

Norman Mailer: "History as a Novel/The Novel as History," Part I

February 21, 2008 12:50AM

What the Publishers Won't Admit About the Demise of the Great American Novel

January 22, 2008 04:37PM

Virtue

December 12, 2007 05:58PM

Doris Lessing, Nobel Laureate, and the XX/YY Axis

November 04, 2007 10:16PM

Memoir As Lie

October 08, 2007 11:14PM

Literary Fiction and "Adam's Curse"

September 13, 2007 02:48AM

The "Pink and White Tyranny" & Its Toll on Fiction

August 05, 2007 08:00PM

Tom Wolfe Got It Right

July 18, 2007 04:54PM

V.S. Naipaul’s Perspective on the Irrelevancy of Fiction & Its Implications for the Rest of Us

June 18, 2007 07:31PM