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• The Hunger Games An ending that a Tea Partier would love.
  David Plotz Aug. 30, 2010
  
• Debating Debate Club The professionalization of the American schoolboy saddens me.
  Mark Oppenheimer Aug. 18, 2010
  
• How Pleasure Works Beliefs shape our experience of pleasure and pain.
  Peter D. Kramer June 14, 2010
  
• The Sabbath World  Everyone's least favorite subject: rules and why we need them.
  Judith Shulevitz March 23, 2010
  
• The Watchers We need to put our spies on a data diet.
  Patrick Radden Keefe Feb. 22, 2010