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The Last Critic

American Nihilism

For all the hand-wringing over whether the gut-wrenching massacre in Tucson was the result of America’s virulent political discourse, the
By Lee Siegel

The Whatever Western

Not to start the new year off on a dour note, but do you want to know why so many
By Lee Siegel

A Power Parable

The Observer‘s slogan is “Money, Power and the City.” That is exactly as it should be. Because of the uniqueness
By Lee Siegel

Assange in Pieces

By Lee Siegel

Apocalypse Now!

By Lee Siegel

Dancing With the Scars

By Lee Siegel

Saul Bellow’s Serious Fight Against Seriousness

By Lee Siegel

Boss Pinstripes: Bloomberg Isn’t a Democrat, or a Republican, or an Independent. He’s 18 Billion Dollars.

By Lee Siegel

Madame Bovary Goes to Washington

By Lee Siegel

When All Hope Is Gone

By Lee Siegel

No Exit—Please! Don’t Let Anyone Kid You. We Love Our Politics Hostile, Polarized and Alienating

By Lee Siegel

Comedy Right-of-Central: What the Tea Party learned from ‘The Daily Show’

By Lee Siegel

The Class Wounds of a Jewish Upstart

By Lee Siegel

What to Ignore When You’re Expecting: The Perils of Prenatal Determinism

By Lee Siegel

The Powerless Elite: Liberals’ True Foe Is Their Love of Comfort

By Lee Siegel

Dinesh Does Dallas

By Lee Siegel

The Fire Next Time

By Lee Siegel

Crimson Chagrin: Harvard Prof’s Iraq Imperialism

By Lee Siegel

Occupied Territories: Glenn Beck, Mother Teresa and the Mosque

By Lee Siegel

Copy This, Baby: Nothing’s Unique In the Age of Google

By Lee Siegel

Remembering Frank Kermode

By Lee Siegel

I Scorn iPorn! My Secret Garden: Organic Soil

By Lee Siegel

TNR's Gerecht Misses Mosque Facts

By Lee Siegel

Basquiat Doc Has Lessons For Barack

By Lee Siegel
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