Martha Nussbaum
Habermas’ Optimism, Murakami’s Blandness, and the Death of American Labor: Today’s TNR Reader
Editor’s Note: We’ll be running the article recommendations of our friends at TNR Reader each afternoon on The Plank, just in time to print out or save for your commute home. Enjoy! How Haruki Murakami created the myth of his own originality. Threepenny Review | 13 min (3,205 words) READ MORE >>
Happyism
Before 2013 begins, catch up on the best of 2012. From now until the New Year, we will be re-posting some of The New Republic’s most thought-provoking pieces of the year. Enjoy. READ MORE >>
A Liberal Education
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-- Martha Nussbaum: do academics have a duty to go into government? -- In Wisconsin, a vanishing enthusiasm gap. -- The GOP continues adding to the deficit. READ MORE >>
What We Could Learn From India and Korea
The Ugly Models
A Passion for Truth
CORRESPONDENCE: Another Way to Honor Feminism
I am heartened that Martha Nussbaum judges my Vindication of Love "provocative and useful," its author a "very sensible person," and its effect upon readers probably "emboldening." READ MORE >>
The Passion Fashion
A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-First CenturyBy Cristina Nehring (Harper, 328 pp., $24.99) READ MORE >>
Good Wood
This piece is from our archives: It was published on May 20, 2009. READ MORE >>