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Is David Cameron Too "Progressivist" For The GOP?
Matthew Yglesias points to the massive spending cuts in the U.K. budget as a reason conservatives should support majority rule: READ MORE >>
Sorkin vs. Zuckerberg
The Living Lie
Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England By Anthony Julius (Oxford University Press, 811 pp., $45) I. READ MORE >>
The Living Lie
Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England By Anthony Julius (Oxford University Press, 811 pp., $45) I. READ MORE >>
The Stranger From Within
William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies By John Carey (Free Press, 573 pp., $32.50) READ MORE >>
Iraq... I mean, Arachnophobia
This is an actual news story, not an allegory for the Iraq war: WHEN his wife screamed there was a spider in the house, Chris Welding sprang to her defence, nearly killing himself in the process. READ MORE >>
The Stranger From Within
William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies By John Carey (Free Press, 573 pp., $32.50) READ MORE >>
The Worthless Babies of South Africa: A New Low in the Moral Rottenness of the Most Morally Portentous Country in the World
This story was brought to the world by Benjamin Pogrund who for years was a writer and ultimately deputy editor of the Rand Daily Mail, a fiercely anti-apartheid newspaper in South Africa. After I acquired The New Republic, Pogrund wrote for us during the seventies and eighties, bringing our readers a white liberal's view of the rotten apartheid government and a wise view of the predicaments that would face the black movements that were arrayed against it. READ MORE >>
The Old Way
High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg By Niall Ferguson (The Penguin Press, 548 pp., $35) READ MORE >>
