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Chinese citizens are hijacking Xi Jinping’s latest propaganda tool

One could tell the last sixty odd years of Chinese history through Chinese Communist Party’s slogans. Elusive expressions like Jiang Zemin’s “three represents” (which refers to the three pillars of…
AUTHOR:Lily Kuo
SOURCE:qz.com
PUBLISHED: May 18, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1188 words)

Marx, Public Choice Theory, and the Utility-Maximizing Consumer by by James Harkin

Image: Class Struggle board game, ©1978, Bertell Ollman IT STARTED WITH THE HUSH PUPPIES. Who wouldn’t be impressed when a journalist with bouffant hair like Malcolm Gladwell throws…
LENGTH: 2 minutes (561 words)

Check out The Atlantic’s new #longreads e-book division

The Atlantic, purveyor of high-tone, long-form, magazine-type literature, is launching a new division for e-books. Called, ever so colorfully, “The Atlantic Books,” the new product line…
PUBLISHED: May 4, 2013

The Case Against Cronies: Libertarians Must Stand Up to Corporate Greed

The Republican attack on President Obama's economic policy has changed subtly, but significantly, in the last three years. In 2009, he was allegedly a "socialist" and a "Marxist" who lusted for…
PUBLISHED: April 30, 2013
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1973 words)

Carjack victim recounts his harrowing night

The 26-year-old Chinese entrepreneur had just pulled his new Mercedes to the curb on Brighton Avenue to answer a text when an old sedan swerved behind him, slamming to a stop. A man in dark clothes…
PUBLISHED: April 25, 2013
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2180 words)

What If We Never Run Out of Oil?

As the great research ship Chikyu left Shimizu in January to mine the explosive ice beneath the Philippine Sea, chances are good that not one of the scientists aboard realized they might be closing…
PUBLISHED: April 24, 2013
LENGTH: 43 minutes (10859 words)

Death of a Revolutionary

Firestone, top left, in 1970, at the beach, reading “The Second Sex”; center left, with Gloria Steinem, in 2000; and bottom right, in 1997. Best known for her writings, Firestone also…
PUBLISHED: April 15, 2013
LENGTH: 32 minutes (8084 words)

For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of WWII

Siberian summers do not last long. The snows linger into May, and the cold weather returns again during September, freezing the taiga into a still life awesome in its desolation: endless miles of…
PUBLISHED: April 8, 2013
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6927 words)

AFTER THE MILE

(This is the first chapter of a five-part article to be published in full on Thursday, March 14.) SAN DIEGO — It was to be a reunion of Southern California’s top high school runners,…
PUBLISHED: March 13, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (913 words)
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