The New Republic

By Richard Stern Yesterday, I emailed the following Letter to the Editor: Re. the removal of five benign polyps from President Bush's colon, would it be infra dig to recall Evelyn Waugh's comment on the excision of a benign tumor from Randolph Churchill: "Odd that they removed Randolph's only benign part"? READ MORE >>

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By Jacob T. Levy OU's Cass Sunstein has been identified as the linchpin of the network of coauthored legal scholarship--the legal academy's own Kevin Bacon or Paul Erdős--in "Six Degrees of Cass Sunstein: Collaboration Networks in Legal Scholarship", by Paul Edelman and Tracey George. READ MORE >>

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By Ronald Radosh A few weeks ago, The American Scholar summer issue appeared. Its lead article is a defense of Alger Hiss' purported innocence--at least an assault on the charge that the man identified as "Ales" in a Venona decrypt is not Alger Hiss, but a man named Wilder Foote. READ MORE >>

By John McWhorter Since the Supreme Court last week decided against Seattle and Louisville, Kentucky's policies of assuring a certain degree of racial diversity in public schools, we have heard much about the undoing of Brown v. Board. However, I have a hard time mourning the decision, though the brute notion that we must ignore race to get beyond it is, surely, simplistic. READ MORE >>

By Richard Stern I enjoyed Cass Sunstein's recent speculations on the possible transition from the present conservative (rather than centrist) Roberts-led court to a liberal one of the sort over which Chief Justice Warren presided. READ MORE >>

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by Linda Hirshman, Courtney Martin, and Deborah Siegel Linda Hirshman: READ MORE >>