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Dancers at the Barre (1895–1900), by Edgar Degas

For and Against Method: On Edgar Degas

A painter who never lost sight of life’s being perpetually in transition.

Barry Schwabsky

All wars have their bards, and Mexico’s ongoing narco wars are no exception.
Posted Jul 31 2013 - 2:26pm
Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine; Sophia Coppola’s The Bling Ring; Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station
Posted Jul 31 2013 - 2:18pm
Alexei Ratmansky’s Shostakovich Trilogy renders the composer’s world and life in the Soviet Union through dance at American Ballet Theatre.
Posted Jul 16 2013 - 6:48pm

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Friedrich Hayek and colleagues, 1950

Angus Burgin revisits Friedrich Hayek’s Mont Pelerin Society in The Great Persuasion.

Ground Zero worker

The architecture of the new World Trade Center buildings emphasizes that their business is none of ours.

Dancers at the Barre (1895–1900), by Edgar Degas

A painter who never lost sight of life’s being perpetually in transition.

Pop & Circumstance

Pop & Circumstance

Leakonomics: Pirates and Snowden
July 16, 2013 - 6:39 PM ET
Joshua Clover

Bounties on the mutineers demonstrate the limits of transparency.

White wigs, black masks: Camover swag in Germany
June 4, 2013 - 8:34 PM ET
Joshua Clover

The cameras no longer look at us because we’re famous; we’re famous because they look at us to death.

Taylor Swift at the Z100 Jingle Ball, New York City, 2012
May 7, 2013 - 6:34 PM ET
Joshua Clover

Profligate, prolific, towering over the landscape: Is Taylor Swift China?

Paul Krugman, Joshua Clover, economics,
April 10, 2013 - 1:36 PM ET
Joshua Clover

Krugman affirms the way things are, no matter how often he choruses the word "change."

Shelf Life

Shelf Life

Martín Adan’s The Cardboard House; José Manuel Prieto’s Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia

Two Lane Blacktop

Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate, Monte Hellman’s Two-Lane Blacktop

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