We’re preparing for first publication elsewhere (newsprint lives!) a review of the Harvey Pekar-Paul Buhle collaboration The Beats: A Graphic History (Hill and Wang, hardback, $22) . Our love for all things Beat made its arrival an event, especially after Pekar’s honest and enlightening history of the SDS . (Frankly, we found the…

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Will you see yourself in sociologist Dalton Conley’s study of contemporary American life Elsewhere, U.S.A.? You might if you live in Silicon Valley or Renton, Washington or work in the production end of L.A.’s entertainment industry or the tattered remnants of New York’s financial district or Chicago’s commodities market. Conley…

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Buried in the (somewhat, considering the current circumstances) shocking Rasmussen poll that reports only 53% of Americans think capitalism better than socialism is something even more shocking: adults under 30 are almost evenly divided on the question, with 33% favoring socialism and 37% favoring capitalism (30% were undecided, a surprise in…

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As a die-hard Krugmanista, the Rabbit was all hopped up to see Paul Krugman on the cover of Newsweek last week . Maybe now that stuttering piece of fluff Anderson Cooper–and the President himself, to whom Krugman is described as “loyal opposition”–will learn to pronounce our favorite Nobel-winning economist’s name correctly.…

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At what point does sexual obsession become sexual addiction? In Francis Levy’s can’t-get-enough novel Erotomania it comes right around page 84 when the story’s compulsive over-extender and the object of his desire start seeing a therapist. Before the clinical appraisal, sex merely dominates the lovers’ time, causing structural damage to their apartment…

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