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What Made the Government Become Huge

Author: Bernard A. Weisberger

…and grow, and grow, from almost no employees to three million. Don’t blame the welfare state, or the military; the truth is much more interesting.

This Super Mario Nation

Author: Steven L. Kent

The video game turns 25 this year, and it has packed a whole lot of history in that time.

Among the Cowboys

Author: Alex Shoumatoff

Fairfield Porter, A Heretic in the Abstract Expressionist Era

Author: David Lehman

At the height of the American avant-garde movement, Fairfield Porter’s realistic paintings defied the orthodoxy of Abstract Expressionism and risked rejection by the art world. But today, his true stature is becoming apparent: He may just be the best we have.