The Culture Gabfest, "Why All These Stupid Altruistic Urges?" Edition
Listen to Slate's show about the new Ayn Rand adaptation Atlas Shrugged Part 1, the New York Times Magazine cover story "Is Sugar Toxic?," and the Civil War blog Disunion.
Posted Wednesday, April 27, 2011, at 11:12 AM
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Stephen Metcalf is Slate's critic at large. He is working on a book about the 1980s.
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