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From the Workshop
Scott McLemee revisits C. Wright Mills's advice on living the scholarly life.
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Meet the Press
A new manifesto announces the death of mass media and the emergence of the citizen journalist. Scott McLemee gives two (but not three) cheers.
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Radio Free Moby
Scott McLemee talks to one of the first literary bloggers about his decision to shift to online radio.
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Democracy at Risk
A new book by political scientists diagnoses a crisis in our civic life. Scott McLemee wonders if they have any good remedies.
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Whereabouts Not Known
Scott McLemee revisits the influential but elusive theorist Henri Mensonge, international man of mystery.
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Dialectics of Disaster
After months of tsunami, hurricane, and earthquake, Scott McLemee wonders if the trouble didn't really start on November 1, 1755...
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A Child's Garden of Culture and Atrocity
"Whoever cannot give to himself an adequate account of the past three thousand years," said Goethe, "remains in darkness, without...