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The Return of Vote-Pairing
Vote-pairing nearly saved Al Gore in 2000. Could it give Kerry a decisive boost this year?  
Jamin Raskin   Oct 25, 2004   High Concept  
First Class
Is it possible to raise rich kids who don't have a sense of entitlement?  
Debra Dickerson   Sep 03, 2004   High Concept  
Racist Like Me
Why am I the only honest bigot?  
Debra Dickerson   Aug 11, 2004   High Concept  
Fur Sale
Sold! The thrilling result of our Mount Everest artifact auction.  
Alex Heard   Jun 09, 2003   High Concept  
Into Thin Fur
It's soft, it's cuddly, and it may be cursed. It's the Patch, the creepiest artifact in Mount Everest history.  
Alex Heard   May 14, 2003   High Concept  
Can a Dog Be Racist?
The case of the prejudiced pit bull.  
  Feb 26, 2003   High Concept  
The Death of Innocents
Terrorists' bombs kill more than just people.  
Peter D. Kramer   Apr 16, 2002   High Concept  
Pick Your Persona
Do it now, before you get old and somebody picks it for you.  
Jodie T. Allen   Jan 03, 2002   High Concept  
Nader's Traders
How to save Al Gore's bacon by swapping votes on the Internet.  
Jamin Raskin   Oct 25, 2000   High Concept  
Don't Hate Bush Because He's Dumb
Dimwits often make good presidents.  
Steve Chapman   Oct 12, 2000   High Concept  
Profiles in Personality 
Everyone is a "type," psychologists tell us. So just what boxes do Bush and Gore belong in?   
Emily Yoffe   Sep 27, 2000   High Concept  
The New Jewish Novel
The complaints are very different from Portnoy's.  
Judith Shulevitz   Sep 11, 1998   High Concept  
Missing Links
The vast international conspiracy behind the Zapruder film.  
Charles Paul Freund   Jul 31, 1998   High Concept  
Listlessness
The cultural anomie induced by the AFI's top 100 film picks.  
Charles Paul Freund   Jul 02, 1998   High Concept  
Suffer the Children
Why can't we shut up about child abuse?  
Larissa MacFarquhar   Jun 17, 1998   High Concept  
Goldhagen's Willing Executioners
The attack on a scholarly superstar, and how he fights back.  
Adam Shatz   Apr 08, 1998   High Concept  
Big-Bang Theology
God makes a cosmological comeback.  
Jim Holt   Feb 12, 1998   High Concept  
The Luck of the Irish
In the movies, IRA terrorists become dashing heroes.  
James Surowiecki   Jan 22, 1998   High Concept  
They Don't Know Jack
What all the new books get wrong about JFK.  
Jeff Shesol   Dec 11, 1997   High Concept  
Requiem for the Mad Scientist
In books and movies, geneticists are no longer deranged. They are ethical.  
Arthur Allen   Nov 20, 1997   High Concept  
Diagnosis: Totally Sane
The DSM isn't crazy in the slightest.  
Larissa MacFarquhar   Nov 13, 1997   High Concept  
The Cult of Che
Knowing what we know, why do we still celebrate him?  
Paul Berman   Oct 30, 1997   High Concept  
Sex in the Ice Cubes
Subliminal messages--once a myth--are now routine.  
Adam Lehner   Oct 08, 1997   High Concept  
The Refractory Ones
Sacco, Vanzetti, and Timothy McVeigh.  
Paul Berman   Aug 20, 1997   High Concept  
What Is Light?
No one really has the faintest idea.  
Jim Holt   Aug 13, 1997   High Concept  
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