Meanwhile, Back in Tennessee

A couple of recent Tennessee stories illustrate the kind of world we can expect to live in should the Tea Party and its more religiously active component of ‘thinkers’ ever gain any real political purchase in this country.

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While the Getting’s Good

Those who know me well have known for a long time my favorite magazine — pretty much the only magazine I’ve read consistently during the past twenty years — has been Harper’s.  I think of it as a kind of New Yorker for the rest of us.

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