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The Myth of the Wall's Fall
The Berlin Wall, toppled 20 years ago today, was brought down by Ronald Reagan's hawkish stand, right? Peter Beinart explodes conventional wisdom-crediting Reagan's dovish side instead.
The Week in Culture
Jude Law and Carrie Fisher debuted on Broadway, Chris Rock made a film about black women's hair, we lost Gourmet, and more from the worlds of TV, film, and art.
This weekend, one of the year's most talked about indie films hits theaters. An Education, written by Nick Hornby and adapted from a memoir by Brit...
10 Summer Schlockbusters!
Transformers was pulverized by critics, but is cleaning up at the box office. The Daily Beast ranks the highest grossing god-awful movies of all time.
A Mother-Son Book Bake-Off
Hyatt Bass wrote a novel, The Embers. Her 5-year-old son wrote a book from a kit, The Super-brothers. And when both books launched at once, chaos ensued in their home.
David Carr on the NY Times and Star Trek
In this episode of The Daily Beast's new video series, Have a Drink With, Rachel Sklar talks Twitter, the pleasures of Diet Coke, and Star Trek versus Star Wars with David Carr of The New York Times.
Is Paris Hilton Killing Science?
Theoretical physicist and bestselling author Michio Kaku talks about time travel, invisibility coats, why celebrities are hurting America's technological edge-and how Obama may be the next savior of science.
After surviving pancreatic cancer, Apple's CEO now says he has a hormone imbalance. How ill is he? And can the company that brought us the iPod and the iPhone prosper without him?




















