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Pete Seeger: The Communist Consumers Loved

Lauren Weiner

During the 1950s and 1960s, when Pete Seeger and Malvina Reynolds coaxed classrooms full of kids to join them in the singing of folk songs, no one paid much...

Of Purloined Letters, Precipitation, and a Better American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Lauren Weiner

Recently it was observed that novelist Anne Tyler “writes about middle-class people trying to endure life in Baltimore.” Tell me about it. The snow that came earlier this month”and...

Where Have All the Lefties Gone?

Lauren Weiner

During the 1950s and 1960s, when Pete Seeger and Malvina Reynolds coaxed classrooms full of kids to join them in the singing of folk songs, no one paid much...

Behind the Veil

Lauren Weiner

The Forgotten Queens of Islam by Fatima Mernissi University of Minnesota Press, 229 pages, $20 Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy by Fawaz A. Gerges Harcourt, 320 pages,...