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Philip Gould / Getty How Music Made Bruce Springsteen
Since before he was the Boss, he's turned to rock and roll to create order out of an anxious and chaotic life.
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Library of Congress How the First Woman in the U.S. Cabinet Found Her Vocation
Frances Perkins discovered her calling after she witnessed one of the worst industrial disasters in American history.
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Teachers Are Fair Game
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How to Run for President
A primer for the Democratic candidates from Congress, who face daunting historical odds
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People Like Us
We all pay lip service to the melting pot, but we really prefer the congealing pot
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The Transformer
Is Tony Blair what Bill Clinton should have been?
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Building Democracy Out of What?
The Iraqi people, and anyone who wants to help them, will have to deal with the long-term psychological trauma of life under Saddam
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What Whitman Knew
Walt Whitman's "Democratic Vistas" is still the most trenchant explanation of American policies and ambitions
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The Return of the Pig
The revival of blatant sexism in American culture has many progressive thinkers flummoxed
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Kicking the Secularist Habit
A six-step program
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The Elephantiasis of Reason
The CIA's brand of rational analysis is perpetually half right in a way that makes it completely wrong
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Light Shows of the Mind
Einstein was right when he said that imagination is more important than knowledge
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Superiority Complex
We have democratized elitism in this country. Now everybody can be a snob
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Lions and Foxes
Different times call for different virtues
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A Man On a Gray Horse
The mid-century theologian Reinhold Niebuhr may have gotten a lot of things wrong—but we could use a thinker like him today
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A Brief History of Yasir Arafat
The PLO leader is a terrible administrator but a brilliant image crafter
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The Culture of Martyrdom
How suicide bombing became not just a means but an end
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The Merits of Meritocracy
Can self-fulfillment build character?
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Looking Back on Tomorrow
If the century ahead turns out to have a theme, what will it be?
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Inspired Immaturity
The midlife crisis as a patriotic duty
