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There was an interesting juxtaposition in the Arts pages of the New York Times today. In the section front feature, a position once reserved for the most important news of high culture, we read of “DMX, A Rapper Who Likes to Let Fans See Him Suffer.” In this, we are told, Mr X (né Earl Simmons)…

Off on one of his usual anti-Bush tirades in the New York Times, Paul Krugman characterizes those who, like William Kristol, advocate military action against Iran — or, indeed, against pretty much anyone else — as “crazies.” Likewise Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld — crazy beyond redemption, apparently. But, perhaps surprisingly, President Bush is not…

The controversy surrounding French soccer star Zinédine Zidane’s head-butting of the Italian defender Marco Materazzi in the World Cup final has thrown up few defenders of the French star. Yet his retaliation for the Italian’s presumably obscene taunts against his mother and sister would once have seemed as “normal” as Mr Materazzi claims such provocative…

A Meditation on Patriotism and the Fourth of July by the author of Honor: A History. . . Blake Gopnik of the Washington Post greeted the reopening this last weekend of the National Portrait Gallery and the American Art Museum in Washington by writing that “the museums don”t manage to elucidate some essentially American culture…

Attacks by President Bush and others on the New York Times represent a political opportunity too good to pass up, but they don’t really have much to do with The New York Times. After all, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post all ran similar stories to the one in…