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Leave it to Americans to invent a religion based on paperwork. Credit card bills. Birth certificate bonds. Form […]

For at least the last twenty years, scholars have proposed that the rise of a post-industrial economy led […]

Around Christmas, television networks trot out the tried-and-true. In a culture obsessed with novelty (which is to say, […]

With the recent repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell in mind, we pulled this article out of our […]

Speed, it seems, is a part of everyday life. Much as Americans did when faced with the telegraph […]

Congress has an opportunity to overcome a pointless legal logjam and make America’s cultural heritage far more available […]