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The Mind's Ear
Nietzsche, Sartre, and Roland Barthes kept regular daily appointments with the piano. Scott McLemee listens in.
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The Best and the Brightest
A cable news journalist looking at American life through classics of social theory? Scott McLemee checks it out.
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Liquidity Trap
Zygmunt Bauman's new book discusses education in an age of unrelenting instability. Scott McLemee consults a modern master.
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The Sporting Life
A new book denounces competitive athletics as "a global plague." Scott McLemee pulls no punches.
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Arab Winter, Arab Spring
President-for-life used to be a steady job. Now it makes you a target. Scott McLemee considers a book on the Middle East's bad old days.
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Book Beat 2012
University presses head to the publishing industry's annual confab. Scott McLemee tags along.
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Puzzling Evidence
Historians are pondering the role of police museums in Latin America. Scott McLemee is watching the detectives.
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That Book Place
Build an old-fashioned bookstore, if you have money to burn -- or consider the new model instead. Scott McLemee looks at the blueprints.