The Fox in the Big House

… sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.
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Out of the Closet and Into the Courts

… sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.
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All the Rage

… sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.
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On Political Correctness

Let us eschew the familiar examples: the disinvited speakers, the Title IX tribunals, the safe zones stocked with Play-Doh, the crusades against banh mi. The flesh-eating bacterium of political correctness, which feeds preferentially on brain tissue, and which has become endemic on elite college campuses, reveals its true virulence not in the sorts …

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One Nation Under God

… its full weight to the fight against abortion and gay rights, particularly gay marriage. It went on to lose the unnecessarily protracted fight about Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube. It could not, or would not, sufficiently condemn the murder of doctors who performed legal abortions or the bombing of abortion clinics, such as the one …

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Unlikely Encounters

… sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.
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From Côte d’Ivoire to the California Coast

… sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.
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Portraits of a Movement

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The Big Schlep

… a third cat, a big white Himalayan brute, who indeed seems attached to me, though his motivation may just be opportunism, since I’m the one who feeds him. In any case, I am outnumbered. As the sole male, I am frequently regarded as an alien, under constant suspicion of being clueless. The women are …

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Building a Sonnet

… me in good stead.
Then I knew: it was either God
Or death before a firing squad.
You weren’t serious when you said
I’d never grow old and if I did
I’d be as lucky as a reckless kid
Who runs away from home to feed his head.
When Death comes and

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