Articles by Lauren Weiner
Cut-and-Paste Culture
Our culture of copying is getting bad. Teachers complain that students crib from the Internet while thinking they're doing legitimate class work. We hear every other day about professional historians, jurists, columnists, reporters, and other ink-stained wretches,
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Lady in Red
The late Susan Sontag flew into Sarajevo to direct a production of Waiting for Godot to lend moral support to Bosnians besieged by Milosevic's bombs. Eve Ensler created a mini-political movement around her play, The Vagina Monologues. Streams of actors...
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'Romantic Radicals'
It is the way of the bien pensant intellectual to reason thusly: Because Senator Joseph McCarthy was a demagogue, nobody in America was rooting for Josef Stalin or helped him. And here's the logical corollary, subscribed to by the bien...
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