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• Beware the squeezebox.
• Presidents and poets.
• The man who was Edmund Burke.
• A monster at large: crime, politics, and the vagaries of Japanese justice.
• Blame.
• Prince of Poets: Mahmoud Darwish was the voice off the Palestinian people--chronicling not just the struggles and political injustices but also the rhythms of daily life.
• Too Big to Fail and Too Risky to Exist: four years after the 2008 financial crisis, banks are behaving more recklessly than ever.
• The Scars of Genocide.
• Buy a judge.
• Kerouac in his own words: an old friend explores his search for a new approach to the novel.

Featured documents

• The torture colony: in a remote part of Chile, an evil German evangelist built a utopia whose members helped the Pinochet regime perform its foulest deeds.

  Colonia Dignidad, Paul Schaefer, Augusto...

• 'Our Big Mistake'.
• Prince of Poets: Mahmoud Darwish was the voice off the Palestinian people--chronicling not just the struggles and political injustices but also the rhythms of daily life.
• Too Big to Fail and Too Risky to Exist: four years after the 2008 financial crisis, banks are behaving more recklessly than ever.
• Love in Wartime: the epistolary romance of a Los Alamos scientist and a Radcliffe junior destined for poetic renown.
• Mortify Our Wolves: the struggle back to life and faith in the face of pain and the certainty of death.
• Letter to Posterity: a passion for philosophy led me to my first career, and a passion for art led me to a second, as a critic.
• The merely very good.

  Paul A.M. Dirac is to Robert Oppenheimer, as W.H. Auden is to Stephen Spender or genius before talent Physicist Robert Oppenheimer and poet Stephen Spender had much in common. Both had great talent and were acutely aware of it. Both befriended genuises in their fields that they admired greatly:...

• Liberty Is a Slow Fruit: Lincoln the deliberate emancipator.
• We Shall Go to Her, but She Will Not Return to Us.