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Cullen Murphy

Cullen Murphy is managing editor of the Atlantic Monthly and also writes the comic strip Prince Valiant.

Articles By Cullen Murphy

  • Feelin' Groovy

    Can anybody say it with a straight face?

    Cullen Murphy | THE GOOD WORD | Thursday, Feb. 11, 1999, at 3:30 AM

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  • A Few Well-Chosen Words

    Our collective unconscious online.  

    Cullen Murphy | THE GOOD WORD | Wednesday, Dec. 9, 1998, at 3:30 AM

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  • Yours, Mine, and Ours

    Whose God is it, anyway?

    Cullen Murphy | THE GOOD WORD | Wednesday, Oct. 14, 1998, at 3:30 AM

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  • Plain Speaking

    A Y2002 Problem.

    Cullen Murphy | THE GOOD WORD | Thursday, Sept. 10, 1998, at 3:30 AM

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  • Trash Talking

    The many forms of empty and hypocritical speech.

    Cullen Murphy | THE GOOD WORD | Thursday, July 9, 1998, at 3:30 AM

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  • Bible English

    Like it or not, the good book lies behind everything you say.

    Cullen Murphy | THE GOOD WORD | Wednesday, June 3, 1998, at 3:30 AM

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  • Alphabet Soup

    A technological history of reading and writing.

    Cullen Murphy | THE GOOD WORD | Wednesday, May 20, 1998, at 3:30 AM

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  • Dissecting the Day's News

    Judith Shulevitz, Katha Pollitt, Andrew Sullivan, Arianna S. Huffington, Harry Shearer, Malcolm Gladwell, Wendy Kaminer, David Brooks, Susan Estrich, Nell Minow, David Edelstein, Ruth Conniff, David Frum, Lucianne Goldberg, Erik Tarloff, Margo Howard, Alex Beam, Herbert Stein, Nadine Strossen, Alex Kozinski, Susan Estrich, Stuart Taylor Jr., Daniel Akst, Lisa DePaulo, Alan Brinkley, Sarah Lyall, Barbara Ehrenreich, Nicholas Von Hoffman, Stephen Graham, Wendy Wasserstein, Susan Cheever, Benjamin Cheever, Christopher Caldwell, Abigail Thernstrom, Stephan Thernstrom, Julie Lasky, Maud Lavin, Sally Quinn, Eric Tarloff, Jeffrey Goldberg, Susan Orlean, E.J. Dionne, Amity Shlaes, Midge Decter, Norman Podhoretz, Cullen Murphy, Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, Michael Hirschorn, Mim Udovitch, Peter Pringle, Gideon Rose, Charles Paul Freund, Kim Masters, Sarah Kerr, Edward Rothstein, Atul Gawande, Marjorie Williams, Geraldine Brooks, Tony Horwitz, Paul Krugman, Kathleen M. Sullivan, Stanley Aronowitz, Ellen Willis, Mary Kaldor, Clive Crook, Anne Applebaum, James Gibney, Steven Brill, Margaret Carlson, Cathy Young, Neal Dolan, Katha Pollitt, Sam Tanenhaus, David Carr, Jill Stewart, Robert Christgau, Danyel Smith, Lisa Zeidner, John Allen Paulos, Christopher Benfey, Elaine Showalter, Christopher Caldwell, Daphne Merkin, and Jodie T. Allen | THE BREAKFAST TABLE | Wednesday, June 23, 1999, at 1:06 AM

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  • The Lie of the Land

    Equivocations, deceptions, fibs, and other forms of not telling the truth.

    Cullen Murphy | THE GOOD WORD | Thursday, April 2, 1998, at 3:30 AM

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  • Like Sands Through the Hourglass

    At the end of the day, what does it all mean?

    Cullen Murphy | THE GOOD WORD | Thursday, Feb. 19, 1998, at 3:30 AM

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