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George Scialabba

George Scialabba is a contributing editor of The Baffler and the author of What Are Intellectuals Good For? and For the Republic.

Articles

Matthew Crawford reflects on the political economy of attention in The World Beyond Your Head.

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In Response to Vivian Gornick.
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On utopia, the hive mind, reviewers, and intellectuals.

Lindsey Gilbert, George Scialabba

Are conservatives more moral?

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Philip Rieff’s problem with freedom.

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Review: Staying Human in an Engineered Age .
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Almost unanimously, Democrats and liberals are pointing the finger at third-party candidate, Ralph Nader. 
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Lionel Trilling was not a neoconservative. He was the very best kind of liberal.

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