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Crops stretch to the horizon. Black bodies pepper the landscape, hunched over as they work the fields. Officers on horseback, armed, oversee the workers. To the untrained eye, the scenes in Angola for Life: Rehabilitation and Reform Inside the Louisiana State Penitentiary, an Atlantic documentary filmed on an old Southern slave-plantation-turned-prison, could have been shot 150 years ago. The imagery haunts, and the stench of slavery and racial oppression lingers through the 13 minutes of footage. The film tells two overlapping stories: One is of accomplishment against incredible odds, of a man who stepped into the most violent maximum-security prison in the nation and gave the men there—discarded and damned—what society didn’t: hope, education, and a moral compass.

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In These Times. Modify Your Dissent. Symposium Magazine | Where Academia Meets Public Life. Lapham’s Quarterly. Mother Jones | Smart, Fearless Journalism. The Nation. National Affairs. The National Interest. NationalJournal.com. National Review Online. Issue 5: Fame. Biology | Primatology On the Origin of Celebrity Why Julia Roberts rules our world. By Robert Sapolsky Culture | Urban Studies Famous For Being Indianapolis How cities are like Kim Kardashian.

By Jonathon Keats Biology | Neurology Ingenious: Robert Burton What we can—and cannot—learn from brain science. By Kevin Berger Numbers | Networks Homo Narrativus and the Trouble with Fame We think that fame is deserved. By Peter Sheridan Dodds The Brain on Trial It’s not fair to ask jurors to vote on a death penalty. By Robert Burton Numbers | Scientific Prizes The Nobel Exchange Announcing the Nautilus Nobel Prize Futures Market By Peter DuCharme Ideas | Paleontology T. Behind every famous dinosaur are unsung heroes. By Brian Switek Ideas | Social science The Famous Anonymous The problem with Western test subjects. By John Bohannon Matter | Chemistry Seven Molecules’ Claim to Fame These infinitesimal celebrities shape us and our world. By Patchen Barss Culture | Sociology Fame is Fortune in Sino-science By Naomi Ching. The New Atlantis - A Journal of Technology & Society. The New Criterion. New English Review. New Left Review - NLR 82, July-August 2013.

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Philosophy and Literature-Volume 33, Number 2, October 2009. Philosophy Now | a magazine of ideas. POLICY Magazine. The Progressive | Peace and social justice since 1909. Prospect Magazine - Prospect Magazine. Quadrant Online - Home. Reason.com. Salon.com. SEEDMAGAZINE.COM. Skeptical Inquirer Index. Politics, Business, Technology, and the Arts - Slate Magazine.

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