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Two decades ago, conservatives were railing against the liberal influence of Hollywood. Then they stopped. Jonathan Chait explains how the right lost the culture war.
NYMag | 16 min (4,024 words)
Genetic codex: Harvard scientists have written a book entirely in DNA.
The Guardian | 3 min (751 words)
Why learn other languages? Just ask Lydia Davis and David Bellos.
The New Yorker | 13 min (3,179 words)
Have consolidation and bureaucratization killed the labor movement?
Dissent | 7 min (1,793 words)
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