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  • A rioter breaks a glass door of the Criminal Courts building, downtown Los Angeles, 29 April 1992, after a jury acquitted four police officers accused of beating a black youth, Rodney King, in 1991. Riots broke out throughout Los Angeles hours after the verdict was announced.
    A rioter breaks a glass door of the Criminal Courts building, downtown Los Angeles, 29 April 1992, after a jury acquitted four police officers accused of beating a black youth, Rodney King, in 1991. Riots broke out throughout Los Angeles hours after the verdict was announced.
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    Henry Louis Gates Jr. Brilliantly Anticipated Today’s Illiberal Movement to Ban Hate Speech

    A return to the early-1990s origins of victimization in identity politics, then—and now—a distraction from the real challenges of structural and institutional racism in America

    byWesley Yang
  • 'Die ganze Welt in einem Kleberblat' (The entire World in a Cloverleaf). Jerusalem is in the centre of the map surrounded by the three continents. Printed in Magdeburg, 1581.
    'Die ganze Welt in einem Kleberblat' (The entire World in a Cloverleaf). Jerusalem is in the centre of the map surrounded by the three continents. Printed in Magdeburg, 1581.
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    An Outsider in Jerusalem

    Like a vampire, I fit nowhere in Israel but inside the real and made-up stories of lovers and others. Fifty years after the end of the Six-Day War, a look back at the monsters and myths of youth.

    byLiz Rose Shulman
  • Camille Paglia in 1992.
    Camille Paglia in 1992.
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    Camille Paglia on Jews and Feminism

    A dialogue with Adam Kirsch, about her new collection ‘Free Women, Free Men’

    byAdam Kirsch
  • Whitney Houston, 1987.
    Whitney Houston, 1987.
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    And I

    Whitney Houston’s music played at bar mitzvahs across America in the 1990s—the theme songs of a forgotten adolescence

    byRachel Shukert
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    So Long Nasty

    The Beastie Boys grew up, and so did I

    byDouglas Century
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