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Christopher Beam

  1. chinese democracy
    The Radical, Lonely, Suddenly Shocking Life of Wang JuntaoAfter half a century of resisting the Chinese Communist Party, a dissident confronts murder and espionage in Queens.
  2. Translation Problems
    American-ish Pies: The Very Strange Story of the Grimaldi’sHow a New York pizza legend’s name wound up at the center of an international counterfeit-restaurant saga.
  3. 6. Outsource to ChinaWhile riffing on the Western canon. Kehinde Wiley’s global reach.
  4. Bubble BoysOut in Silicon Valley, the last bastion of full employment, the Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerbergs of the future are staying up all night writing […]
  5. The Trouble With LibertyLibertarians, of both left and right, haven’t been this close to power since 1776. But do we want to live in their world?
  6. A Reasonable ManIn a world of loud voices and extreme positions, David Brooks manages to be both irrelevant and absolutely essential.