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Attitudes Toward Kenneth Burke
It's been almost twenty years since the death of an American intellectual maverick. But Scott McLemee finds there is plenty of life left in his work.
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Matters of Ultimate Concern
A new book considers the power of religion in the public sphere. Scott McLemee reads it while bracing for 2012.
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'Bachelors and Bunnies'
Over the years there has emerged a body of Playboy scholarship, which I read around in, every once in a...
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Transforming Terror
If 9/11 "changed everything," what did killing Osama bin Laden do? Scott McLemee looks at an anthology on the climate of terror.
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Atlas Shrunk
Ayn Rand's magnum opus took 54 years to put on the screen. Scott McLemee is underwhelmed by the result.
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Like a Rolling Stone
Critic and feminist thinker Ellen Willis is being honored with a conference and a posthumous collection of her rock writing. Scott McLemee wonders what took so long.
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Poisonous Knowledge
A new book looks at the narcopolitics of methamphetamine. Scott McLemee grinds his teeth while reading it.