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What Friedrich Nietzsche Did to America

In 1889, when Friedrich Nietzsche suffered the mental collapse that ended his career, he was virtually unknown. Yet by the time of his death in 1900 at the age of 55, he had become the philosophical...

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America’s Got No Talent

“America’s Got No Talent” is a web-based software project by Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki that synthesizes and processes the steady stream of Twitter feeds for several American reality...

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America the Possible: A Manifesto, Part I

The following transformations hold the key to moving to a new political economy. Consider each as a transition from today to tomorrow. • Economic growth: from growth fetish to post-growth society,...

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The Rich And The Rest Of Us: A Poverty Manifesto

Award-winning broadcaster Tavis Smiley and one of the nation’s leading democratic intellectuals, Cornel West, challenge us to examine our assumptions about poverty in America. The Rich and the Rest of...

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Fear of a Black President

As a candidate, Barack Obama said we needed to reckon with race and with America’s original sin, slavery. But as our first black president, he has avoided mention of race almost entirely. In having to...

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The Drone Philosopher

From the thumbnail headshot accompanying his essay in the Times, “the drone philosopher,” as I’ve begun to think of him, appears to be in his late twenties, or a boyish 30. In an oddly...

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Class in America: The Fault Lines

From “trailer trash” to “the one percent,” the language of class tends to evoke divisions both stark and simplistic. It’s easy to discern the outward differences between a single mother living in...

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