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Smartphones Aren't Anti-Social

Image: Miroslav Hristoff   The Edward Hopper painting, "Room in New York" (1932) suggests that

Claude S. Fischer

Gender & Sexuality, Literature & Culture

Hands Off Clitoridectomy

Not since Masters and Johnson has the clitoris—or its absence—been a topic of such intense

Yael Tamir

Literature & Culture, Philosophy & Religion

Ending Polarization

The cultural politics of the 2004 presidential election launched many Americans into a long-term

John Gastil, Dan M. Kahan, Donald Braman

Class & Inequality, Literature & Culture

After the Double No

For once, it seems, observers across Europe agree on something: the European Union is in crisis

Jan-Werner Müller

Global Justice, Literature & Culture

American Soup

Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity Samuel Huntington Simon and

Claudio Lomnitz

Poetry

Candidates for Survival

Harold Bloom knew “by age eleven or twelve that all [he] really liked to do was read poetry and

Harold Bloom, Ellen Spirer

Literature & Culture

Play Ball

Art is where you find it. Blasted into the brick floor of the Davis Square subway station in

Tom Hart

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