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Michael Thomsen

Michael Thomsen is a writer in New York. His work has appeared in Slate, Bookforum, The New Inquiry, The Believer, The Millions, and Kill Screen.

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Broken Promise

The Selfish Genome

What did the Human Genome Project give us? Better shampoo, sure, but what about improving our lives? By Michael Thomsen.

Michael Thomsen

articles/2012/12/13/how-neo-nazis-and-gangs-infiltrated-the-u-s-military-matt-kennard-s-irregular-army/irregular-army-matt-kennard-thomsen_kicfcd
Call of Duty

How Neo-Nazis Infiltrated the Army

Did the Bush administration’s desperate need to build up the military for the Iraq War lead recruiters to turn a blind eye? By Michael Thomsen.

Michael Thomsen

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Great Weekend Reads

A country-hopping anthology of new European fiction, Heinrich Boll’s memoir of his boyhood under the Nazis, and the travails of Alice James.

Lauren Elkin

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