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Darryl Pinckney
For so many, Michael Brown’s death was the last straw. Black youth are fed up with being branded criminals at birth.
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Nancy Gertner, Bruce Brower, Paul Shechtman, and Jed Rakoff
Gertner: There were times during my 17-year tenure on the federal bench in Massachusetts that inquiring of a defendant as to the voluntariness of his guilty plea felt like a Kabuki ritual.
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Arnold Packer, Jeff Madrick, and Alan Blinder
Madrick: To read Blinder’s review of my book, you’d think that nothing was wrong with economics in recent decades except as it is practiced by a few right-wingers.
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Also in the January 8 issue: Charles Simic on Mark Strand, Dan Chiasson on Marlon Brando, Marcia Angell on Atul Gawande, Diane Johnson on jealousy, David Cole on counterterrorism, Geoffrey Wheatcroft on Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks, Norman Rush on Denis Johnson, Alma Guillermoprieto on the murders in Mexico, and more
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Tim Parks
If reading is a skill, there must be techniques and tools that everyone can use or try, even if we use them differently.
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Christian Caryl
The Imitation Game not only fatally miscasts the mathematician and codebreaker Alan Turing as a character—it also completely destroys any coherent telling of what he and his colleagues were trying to do.
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Madeline H. Caviness, Jeffrey Hamburger, and Martin Filler
Filler: A question central to the responsible conservation of old buildings is which period in their history ought to be preserved, and indeed if just one or several epochs should be protected.
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