Friday, February 10, 2017
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By the Content of Its Characters
On rereading “War and Peace” in the age of radical sensitivity
Melvin Jules Bukiet
Smarty Pants Podcast
Portraits of a Movement
Plus: our new visual arts blog, and a tour of Trump’s conflict of interest
Stephanie Bastek
Inauguration 2017
The Inauguration and Its Discontents
Portraits of protesters and attendees on January 20th
Barry Goldstein
Book Essay
The Gogol Notebook
Remembering Randall Jarrell’s passionate lectures on Russian literature and discovering the pangs of alienation that plagued the poet during his final years
Angela Davis-Gardner
Cover Story
“We Must Not Be Enemies”
Progressives who wish for a less reactionary America could begin by trying to understand the Trump voter
Amitai Etzioni
The Daily Scholar
Full Disclosure Fridays
The New York literary life
On Being Popular and Well-Liked
The subject that makes me most nervous as a writer
Phillip Lopate
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Measure by Measure Thursdays
In Praise of Vinyl
Returning to a more tactile, immersive experience
Sudip Bose
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Left for dead yet pulsing with life again, Detroit survives as a place of inconsistency and contradiction
Laura Bernstein-Machlay
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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK
Letter from Antarctica: Cold Comfort
By Emily Stone
There’s a Connecticut-sized piece of ice shelf clinging perilously to Antarctica, where the National Science Foundation funds dozens of projects every year to study glaciers, seals, icebergs, and stars. As U.S. government agencies face the prospect of reduced funding and autonomy, read this piece read this piece to remind yourself of the importance of scientific research.
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Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery
By Jonathan Lamb
This week, read an excerpt from a new book about every sailor’s favorite ailment
