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The Uses of Enchantment
In Enchanted Objects, David Rose rhapsodizes about the coming Internet of Things. But can high-tech objects really reconnect us?
Jessica Stites
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Use Your Words, Wolverine
The bad lessons of superhero movies.
Michael Atkinson
Culture
Piketty and Meatballs
What we talk about when we talk about Capital.
Chris Lehmann
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Artisanal Union-Busting
Whole Foods has attempted to crush anything resembling a union drive among its employees.
Chris Lehmann
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The Summer Movie Road Not Taken
1977's Sorceror was the antithesis of Star Wars, and we could learn from it
Michael Atkinson
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Beyond the Right to Choose
When is 'choice' the wrong approach?
Jane Miller
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The Deal That Never Died
The New Deal's still all around us
Theo Anderson
Culture
Whitewashing Godzilla
The latest adaptation of the classic flick all but ignores the original monster's anti-nuclear message.
Steve Ryfle
Culture
Death of a Hacktivist
A new documentary on Aaron Swartz.
Patricia Aufderheide
Culture
Dimwits and the Dark Ages
Pervasive sexual violence has become a black eye for HBO's popular Game of Thrones series.
Katherine Don
Culture
Mansplaining, Explained
How Rebecca Solnit articulated a millennia-old phenomenon.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
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The Ambiguities of Care
As they grow older, women may find themselves once again enlisted as unpaid caretakers.
Jane Miller
Culture
Is Harmon’s ‘Community’ Really Back in Harmony?
The season that followed creator Dan Harmon's return was more about him than about anything else.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
Culture
A Cubicle of One’s Own
Nikil Saval's new book, Cubed, shows us the future of the workplace.
Chris Lehmann
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Nymphomaniac: Lars Von Trier’s Masturbatory Fantasy
The two-part film feels like the work of teenage boy.
Michael Atkinson
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The Minor Leagues’ Major Malfunction
Curt Flood's landmark antitrust suit transformed the Major League, but the Minor League is still bound by archaic rules.
Chris Lehmann
Culture
‘Game of Thrones’ Could Have Been Much Worse
HBO's hit series is making the best of its heavy-handed source material.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
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Judges Blind To Justice
Matt Taibbi's new book, The Divide, illuminates the corruption in our courtrooms.
Moe Tkacik
Culture
Clever Girls
'Men or books?' These could be mutually exclusive choices for young women in 1950s Europe, as two new novels show.
Jane Miller
Culture
For Cambodian Documentarians, a Conundrum
How do you show the past when the Khmer Rouge torched all traces?
Michael Atkinson
Culture
The New York Lottery, Now Kid-Friendly?
A new ad blitz makes deceptive claims.
Matthew Vaz
Culture
The Perils of Reading While Female
Alienated by sexism in 'Great Books' (cough, Kerouac), some women create a secret canon.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
Culture
How Will We Remember the First World War?
The centenary of the Great War has sparked some ugly debates in the U.K.
Jane Miller
Culture
Let the Witness Speak
In Claude Lanzmann's new Holocaust documentary The Last of the Unjust, the line between right and wrong blurs.
Michael Atkinson
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