Scrutinizing culture.

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• Where Are the Jewish Gangsters of Yesteryear? Or, what we can learn about "respectability" from Bernie Madoff and Meyer Lansky.
  Ron Rosenbaum Dec. 19, 2008
  
• Give the Guy a Butt! Let Obama smoke in the White House.
  Ron Rosenbaum Dec. 10, 2008
  
• Everything You Need To Know About Hitler's "Missing" Testicle And why we're so obsessed the Führer's sex life.
  Ron Rosenbaum Nov. 28, 2008
  
• The Good Life of a New-Media Guru Is Jeff Jarvis gloating too much about the death of print?
  Ron Rosenbaum Nov. 12, 2008
  
• The Opera's New Clothes Why I walked out of Doctor Atomic.
  Ron Rosenbaum Oct. 24, 2008
  
• The Bloomberg Syndrome The New York mayor's power grab is a symptom of a national problem.
  Ron Rosenbaum Oct. 9, 2008
  
• Shakespeare's Bootlegger, Dylan's Biographer, Nabokov, and Me When should an unauthorized version be authorized?
  Ron Rosenbaum Sept. 23, 2008
  
• New Literary Art Form Discovered! In praise of the praise of poetry.
  Ron Rosenbaum Sept. 5, 2008
  
• Crossword, Sudoku Plague Threatens America! The puzzle of puzzle people.
  Ron Rosenbaum Aug. 20, 2008
  
• The Columbia Journalism Review's Division Over Dissent Is global warming now beyond debate?
  Ron Rosenbaum Aug. 8, 2008
  
• The Good Rat The Dostoyevskian pleasures of Jimmy Breslin.
  Ron Rosenbaum July 18, 2008
  
• Notes on Catch Which catchphrases should be "thrown under the bus"?
  Ron Rosenbaum June 27, 2008
  
• Are Those Shakespeare's "Balls"? Should "A Lover's Complaint" be kicked out of the canon?
  Ron Rosenbaum June 12, 2008
  
• In Praise of Liberal Guilt It's not wrong to favor Obama because of race.
  Ron Rosenbaum May 22, 2008
  
• A Real Nuclear Option for the Nominees Averting "inadvertent" war in two easy steps.
  Ron Rosenbaum May 9, 2008
  
• From Slo-Mo to No-Mo Errol Morris and the strange power of superslow motion.
  Ron Rosenbaum April 10, 2008
  
• Welcome to the Hotel Hiroshima Has the ground zero of the nuclear age become too "normal"?
  Ron Rosenbaum March 25, 2008
  
• The Fate of Nabokov's Laura, Part II Dmitri turns to his dead father for advice on whether to burn the manuscript.
  Ron Rosenbaum Feb. 28, 2008
  
• Hillary I vs. Hillary II Richard Nixon returns from the grave to haunt Clinton and remind us of the costs of unresolved history.
  Ron Rosenbaum Feb. 14, 2008
  
• In Defense of Incandescence Congress bans beauty as an environmental hazard.
  Ron Rosenbaum Jan. 30, 2008
  
• Dmitri's Choice Nabokov wanted his final, unfinished work destroyed. Should his son get out the matches?
  Ron Rosenbaum Jan. 16, 2008