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“The economic crisis happened because people on Wall Street knew that they could break the law at will; they could commit massive systemic economic fraud and that the ethos in this country is that if you are sufficiently powerful, economically and/or politically, you will be insulated from your crimes.” - Glenn Greenwald on The Brian Lehrer Show
With Liberty and Justice for Some out today in...
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June 2012
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Talking Death, Magic, and Hoboes with Lapham's...
Lapham’s Quarterly is a journal of big ideas. It takes its lead from Cicero’s observation that “to know our history is to know ourselves” and, with writings from the past, proves “that valuable observations of the human character and predicament don’t become obsolete”. Each issue explores a single theme using archival material, newly commissioned essays, and “history’s underutilized scrapbooks:...
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