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Between my first book tour, in 2003, and the next one, in 2009, many of the places I visited had undergone a significant transformation or vanished: C...more

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Jefferson, who spent his life collecting books, many of which he donated to the Library of Congress, boasted that America was the only country whose f...more

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But perhaps there is another, more personal reason for my disagreement with Ramin: I cannot imagine myself feeling at home in a place that is indiffer...more

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correlation between the growing lack of respect for ideas and the imagination and the increasing gap between rich and poor in America, reflected not j...more