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Jonathan Franzen on his book, Imperial Bedroom.
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Jane Smiley’s “Greenlanders,” among others.
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Franzen’s literary touchstones, decades in, decades out.
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Why not take the opportunity to learn a language?
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Jonathan Franzen discusses the potential for China’s economic collapse.
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China made America feel very old and tired, Franzen says.
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Jonathan Franzen on growing up in the Midwest in the 1970s.
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Do you want more or less liberty?
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Power isn’t exercised in Washington.
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The Constitution was an effort to chain down and destroy certain powers.
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Will this administration’s spending require a future tax hike?
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Bush fostered a shareholder society.
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No Democrat ran for Congress and said, “I will raise your taxes and these icky Republicans are too busy cutting your taxes.”
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Grover Norquist, on how he’s shaped the national agenda.
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Is the conservative movement coming apart at the seams?
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Bringing together all those who wish to be left alone.
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Summer heat, the first early morning of it…
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The Web fosters a staggering level of global connectedness when it comes to communication, but may not actually change language all that much.
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The poet explains why “one of the things that we need to do as Americans at present…involves keeping the imagination of the future alive.”
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