Vanessa Williamson: How the Tea Party Could Win it All
Vanessa Williamson could persuade you that the wily elders in the Tea Party have much more to show for their anger and agitation than the passionate youth of the “Occupy” protest. They’re just one November election away from winning all the marbles…
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Jeanette Winterson: What it Takes, in Letters and Life
Jeanette Winterson is the real thing — on the page, in life’s rough and tumble, and in our quick forty-minute feast of gab… I’m pinching myself and thinking: this could be Charlotte Bronte I’m sitting with, or George Eliot.
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Tim Snyder and Tony Judt: another narrative for Campaign 2012
Timothy Snyder, a rising-star historian at Yale, is turning up the heat on his friend Tony Judt’s parting sermons about “social democracy.” We are making of Tony Judt’s last work “a catalog of the malaise” in the land…

























