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Crackpot authorities
Mark Wallace
From Wilhelm Reich to Julian Jaynes to H.W. Fowler, I sing of the brilliant, the ambitious and the just a bit mad.
Stan Lee
Frank Houston
The father of Spider-Man and the Silver Surfer invented the modern
superhero, revived a dying industry and created a mythology.
Theater in black and white
David Moberg
Two Chicago plays -- "Jitney" and "Spinning into Butter" -- tackle racial issues from opposite sides of the tracks.
Sharps & flats
Michelle Goldberg
Growing up all wrong: The anti-electronic anthems of Bis make hypocrites out of youngsters who should know better.
TV can be a good parent
Ariel Gore
The American Academy of Pediatrics says television watching is harmful to babies and toddlers. This mama says: I don't think so.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
George W. Bush's "compassionate conservatism" is a lie; Tibetans don't deserve their oppression; is "sex ed" just a way of controlling teenagers?
Buford Furrow's worst nightmare
Joan Walsh
It's not just the Jews at the JCC who got to him -- it's the way they mix up the American melting pot.
The malling of America
Jenn Shreve
Old Navy and Starbucks and Jamba Juice! Oh my! Plus: Feed looks at the latest trend in computer interfaces.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Are vaccines killing our kids? Plus: "Hannibal" is just too gory; new economy, same old ethics.
The Savage id
Michael Sragow
Camille Paglia talks about why Hitchcock has more to do with Madonna than he does with pomo theorists.
My “Outlander” thing
Gavin McNett
How a brainy guy like me wound up reading historical romance novels.
Lunatic fringe
Samuel G. Freedman
Jews can't let crackpots like Buford Furrow convince them that anti-Semitism is rising in America.
God is dead. So is art … Show us your tits!
Cintra Wilson
Museums are supposed to be the last outposts of cultural experience, inspiring us to be less idiotic. Instead, they're sucking down to our lowest impulses.
Sharps & flats
Seth Mnookin
New York combo Hasidic New Wave illustrates the difference between klezmer and Jewish jazz.
“Walker Evans”
Andrew Long
A more critical eye could have taken this wonderfully researched life of the photographer to another level.
Shark attack!
Nikki Finke
ICM superagent Jim Wiatt defects to William Morris. Hollywood watches as all-out agency war looms.
The last of the Lilith Fairs
Gavin McNett
Plenty of Chrissie, Sheryl, Sarah and Sandra -- but nary a female drummer.
Bill Bradley: The next black president?
Keith Moore
His campaign purports to make race a central issue, but so far it's more style than substance.
Rendezvous of the sun and the moon
Jeff Greenwald
Our eclipse correspondent witnesses ancient treasures and a modern miracle in Iran.
Future imperfect
Andrew Leonard
The Industry Standard sees a future filled with "culture-clash" stories from LinuxWorld. But things seem a little cloudy in its crystal ball.
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