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New on nybooks.com: From the Review: democracy vs. authoritarianism, “authentic” New Orleans, and how the CIA secretly published Doctor Zhivago. On the blogs: bending the rules, a new Crucible, inequality and childhood development, the rise of ISIS, the Supreme Court’s rulings, Snowpiercer, trumpeter Clifford Brown, and watching the World Cup.

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Are the Authoritarians Winning?

Michael Ignatieff

Democracies today are in the middle of a period of envy and despondency.

The Heart of New Orleans

Nathaniel Rich

Bourbon Street, long considered an R-rated theme park, remains in many ways the “heartbeat” of the city, for better or worse.

The CIA’s ‘Zhivago’

Michael Scammell

For over half a century the CIA kept totally quiet about its involvement with Doctor Zhivago and only very recently admitted to it.

Bend or Break

Christopher Benfey

In art, it is generally more interesting to bend the rules (bend them like Beckham) than to break them. Bend is evolution. Break is revolution.

The Witches of West End

Ingrid D. Rowland

The Crucible endures as drama because of the biting contrasts it draws between sanity and insanity, rationality and irrationality.

Inequality Begins at Birth

Jeff Madrick

We can no longer just tell children raised poor to study harder and find jobs as they grow up.

ISIS: The New Taliban

Ahmed Rashid

In many ways, what the group is doing to Syria and Iraq resembles what the Taliban did in Afghanistan and Pakistan in the early 1990s.

The Map ISIS Hates

Malise Ruthven

Jihadist groups have long drawn on a fertile historical imagination, and old grievances about the West in particular.

It Could Have Been Worse

David Cole

Make no mistake about it. This is a conservative Supreme Court. But for now, its approach is incremental rather than radical.

Revolt on the Polar Express

J. Hoberman

The spectacle of class warfare aboard a super train makes Snowpiercer the most overtly leftwing pop movie in years.

The Mellow Agility of Clifford Brown

Christopher Carroll

Brown was only twenty-five when he died, but even then was already known as one of the greatest trumpet players in jazz. He was so beloved among musicians that when word of his death reached Dizzy Gillespie’s band, then performing at the Apollo, they broke down in tears.

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