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• They Don't Know Jack What all the new books get wrong about JFK.
  Jeff Shesol Dec. 11, 1997
  
• Requiem for the Mad Scientist In books and movies, geneticists are no longer deranged. They are ethical.
  Arthur Allen Nov. 20, 1997
  
• Diagnosis: Totally Sane The DSM isn't crazy in the slightest.
  Larissa MacFarquhar Nov. 13, 1997
  
• The Cult of Che Knowing what we know, why do we still celebrate him?
  Paul Berman Oct. 30, 1997
  
• Sex in the Ice Cubes Subliminal messages--once a myth--are now routine.
  Adam Lehner Oct. 8, 1997
  
• The Refractory Ones Sacco, Vanzetti, and Timothy McVeigh.
  Paul Berman Aug. 20, 1997
  
• What Is Light? No one really has the faintest idea.
  Jim Holt Aug. 13, 1997
  
• Trials of Socrates The way we teach law is worse than sexist. It's idiotic.
  David Franklin July 31, 1997
  
• But Is It Art Criticism? The Stalinist aesthetics of the Weekly Standard.
  Franklin Foer June 29, 1997
  
• Nichols and Nora The two greatest performances of the decade.
  Ross Wetzsteon June 11, 1997
  
• Allen Ginsberg's Secret What he did with Norman Podhoretz at Columbia.
  Paul Berman June 5, 1997
  
• Pop Cult What the lack of cultural cultivation can lead us to do.
  Edward Rothstein April 24, 1997
  
• Who Cares If Johnny Can't Read? The value of books is overstated.
  Larissa MacFarquhar April 17, 1997
  
• Just the Artifacts A cultural history of cultural histories.
  Rick Perlstein March 13, 1997
  
• Doubting Thomas What was Jefferson really up to?
  David Greenberg Feb. 20, 1997
  
• Psychotherapy While-U-Wait Russia's newest fad.
  Masha Gessen Jan. 16, 1997