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Deployed
How do military reservists balance the two sides of being "citizen-soldiers"? Scott McLemee asks the researchers.
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French Theory
A forthcoming book takes a fresh perspective on how poststructuralism conquered America. Scott McLemee checks it out.
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In Search of Max Faber
A polemical book takes aim at African-American public intellectuals. Scott McLemee represents....
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The 2.0 Decade?
Readers come up with names for the era now winding down. And Scott McLemee looks back on it all....
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The Truth? I Can't Handle the Truth!
Harvard University Press has just issued a book promulgating a JFK assassination conspiracy theory. Let's put that sentence on the...
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The Soiling of Old Glory
A new book analyzes a famous photograph from Boston anti-busing protests. Scott McLemee takes a pre-post-racial look.
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The Whole World Was Watching
A new film takes an almost hallucinatory look at the protests in Chicago in 1968. Scott McLemee trips into its black holes.