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Appetite for Fear

David Everitt’s history of the pamphleteers who hunted ‘pinkos’

By David Hajdu Feb 12, 2008 at 09:00 AM

Sixty years after the house un-American Activities Committee began hunting for Communists in the entertainment industry, the HUAC hearings that... More

Not for Laughs

A pathbreaking look at the dark comic genius behind “Skippy”

By David Hajdu Mar 15, 2011 at 06:00 AM

“All cartoonists are geniuses,” wrote John Updike in his introduction to a collection of cartoons by Arnold Roth, a... More

Condition Critical

Can arts critics survive the poison pill of consumerism?

By David Hajdu Jan 29, 2009 at 08:30 AM

I saw the future through a two-way mirror in November 1990. I had just started a new job as a... More

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“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”

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Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything

The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy

How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”

Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement

Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation

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