Culture

Magazine articles on ancient and modern culture issues.

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Reason April 2005 Steven Vincent	Ancient Treasures for Sale Do antique dealers preserve the past or steal it? Such is the allure of ancient treasures that, since the 1970s, this relationship has spawned global treaties, inflamed Third World nationalism, created a secretive Washington bureaucracy, and triggered federal prosecutions.
Reason April 2005 Michael Young	Wide World of Sports A book review of How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization, by Franklin Foer: Soccer mirrors globalization and its discontents.
Reason April 2005 Jesse Walker	The Hippie and the Redneck Can Be Friends Two worlds collide in film and music. It's during that period of discovery, when cultural identities are being reinvented and reshuffled, that things look more ambiguous.
Reason April 2005 Charles Paul Freund	Madrassas Molesters A minister in Pakistan's religious affairs department says there were 500 complaints last year of child sex abuse by clerics in madrassas, Muslim religious schools. Is the culture common to Islamic nations morally dysfunctional?
Reason April 2005 Charles Paul Freund	Let Freedom Sing Iran's mystery diva: DJ Maryam's traditional vocal trembles have been digitally intensified and has inspired a widespread cult that mixes celebrity and martyrdom.
Military History Quarterly Spring 2005 Ira Meistrich	War's Cradle The birthplace of civilization is also the home of culture's nemesis.
Smithsonian April 2005 Paul Raffaele	Out of Time Less than a decade after their first contact with the outside world, the volatile Korubo of the Amazon still live in almost total isolation.
The Motley Fool March 15, 2005 Selena Maranjian	China Says: "Please Exploit Us!" Are bad working conditions better than no work at all?
Reason March 2005 Jeff A. Taylor	Boomer or Bust Reflections of a baby boomer: What started as an effort to build a counterculture soon fragmented into many niche subcultures that had nothing to do with (or even hated) flower power.
IDB America February 2005	Latin American Art with Japanese Roots A new exhibit at the IDB celebrates the cultural contribution of Latin American artists of Japanese descent.
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