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    Why Friedrich Nietzsche Is the Darling of the Far Left and the Far Right

    In our new political landscape, radicals on all sides find something to like in the German philosopher

    byGuy Elgat
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    Marshall Berman, Marxist Humanist Mensch

    Remembering the author, who died yesterday at 72

    byTodd Gitlin
  • Russia’s Cherno Alpha in a scene from Pacific Rim.(Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures)
    Russia’s Cherno Alpha in a scene from Pacific Rim.(Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures)
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    Hollywood’s New Golems, on the Loose, Storm the Box Office

    The slew of animated creatures on screen suggests that we once again feel the same fears that brought the original monster to life

    byLiel Leibovitz
  • A friend holds holds up 23-year-old Rachel Corrie's passport, after hearing news of Corrie's death at the Najjar Hospital March 16, 2003, in the Gaza Strip's Rafah refugee camp. (Getty Images)
    A friend holds holds up 23-year-old Rachel Corrie's passport, after hearing news of Corrie's death at the Najjar Hospital March 16, 2003, in the Gaza Strip's Rafah refugee camp. (Getty Images)
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    Why Rachel Corrie Went to Gaza

    What the pro-Palestinian activist—whose death was just ruled an accident—shared with Lawrence of Arabia

    byLee Smith
  • Lev Shestov in Kiev, 1916.(© Private collection, courtesy of Lev Shestov Studies Society [Société d’Etudes Léon Chestov])
    Lev Shestov in Kiev, 1916.(© Private collection, courtesy of Lev Shestov Studies Society [Société d’Etudes Léon Chestov])
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    A Philosopher of Small Things

    A new book on ‘antiphilosophy’ revives interest in Lev Shestov, a seminal but largely forgotten thinker

    byDavid Sugarman
  • Adolf Hitler, 1930. (Illustration: Tablet Magazine; Hitler photo: Deutsches Bundesarchiv via Wikimedia Commons)
    Adolf Hitler, 1930. (Illustration: Tablet Magazine; Hitler photo: Deutsches Bundesarchiv via Wikimedia Commons)
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    Revenge of the Nerds

    Video games are the medium of revenge, and for Israeli boys killing Hitler in Wolfenstein, that meant addressing some deep traumas

    byLiel Leibovitz
  • An albino alligator in Pierrelatte, France.(Philippe Desmazes/AFP/Getty Images)
    An albino alligator in Pierrelatte, France.(Philippe Desmazes/AFP/Getty Images)
    Belief section icon
    True Crocodiles

    Werner Herzog and Moses agree: Truth reveals itself in mysterious ways, hidden from the cold and critical eye and available only to those prepared to indulge in fantasies

    byLiel Leibovitz
  • Robert Pinsky.(Vernon Doucette)
    Robert Pinsky.(Vernon Doucette)
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    Expansive

    Robert Pinsky’s career-spanning Selected Poems highlights his movement from meditative formalist to Whitmanesque bard

    byDavid Kaufmann
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    NYT Becomes Tablet for a Day

    Your Sunday reading, Monday

    byMarc Tracy
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