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The Field of the Cloth of Gold, by an unknown English painter, c. 1545. Royal Collection.

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Sticks and Stones

By Lewis H. Lapham

On the use and misuse of civility.

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Artists and Scholars Fighting Old-Fashioned Pedantry Under the Protection of Minerva (detail), by Wilhelm von Kaulbach, c. 1851. © bpk Bildagentur / Neue Pinakothek, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich / Art Resource, NY.

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Varieties of Ether

By Hua Hsu

Toward a history of creativity and beef.

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Essay

Love’s Labors Lost

By Jayne Anne Phillips

The resolution of America’s best-known feud.

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Essay

Parry and Thrust

By Jim Holt

After a series of television clashes during the 1968 election, Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr. developed a warm hatred of each other. 

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Raising Cane

By Joanne B. Freeman

The violence on Capitol Hill that foreshadowed a bloody war.

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