Recent Articles from The Review
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Scholars in Bondage
Academics writing about kink lick the boots of their cultural-studies idols and shackle themselves in jargon.
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Austerity Has Been Tested, and It Failed
Public-health experts have joined economists and historians in critiquing rigid belt-tightening regimes.
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Why Do Historians Insist on Dividing Us?
Human relations have been characterized by contact and interconnection more than by conflict and antagonism.
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A Course in Online Civility
His students bemoan social-media meanness, but when their online conversations are part of their grade, the courtesy is contagious.
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The Talented Mrs. Shipley
A State Department bureaucrat of the early 20th century drew up a forerunner of the No Fly List, raising the same constitutional issues then as we face now.
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New Scholarly Books
Descriptions of the latest books, divided by category
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A Letter to My Grandfather
The late Jacques Barzun was known to the world as a great historian. To his grandson, he was also a guide on grooming, career, and "the enigma of love."
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Where Thomas Nagel Went Wrong
The philosopher's critique of evolution wasn't shocking. So why have his colleagues raked him over the coals?
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Hard Hats, Hippies, and the Real Antiwar Movement
Class divides in protest movements have never been as simple as they seemed.
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Jazz Journeys of Mind and Soul
In imaginative new works, Jaimeo Brown and Chuck Owen explore spiritual and natural revelations through hybrid musical forms.
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My Academic Metamorphosis
Four years of anguish intense enough to induce a fugue state was enough for this would-be professor.
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New Scholarly Books
Descriptions of the latest books, divided by category
