The Editors parse police violence in LA, Alexander Cockburn considers climate change, Gene Seymour analyzes Philip K. Dick.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Morality Gets a Massage
: Randall Tobias isn't the first abstinence czar to run afoul of the moral agenda he promoted. It's time Congress stopped this dangerous crusade.
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Invisible America
Patricia J. Williams : Fifty-three years after Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court will rule on two cases that will decide the future of school integration.
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Laboring for Edwards
Marc Cooper : John Edwards is meticulously laying the groundwork to become the candidate of organized labor, insisting prosperity can expand only if unionization expands.
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France à Droite
André Schiffrin : Under Sarkozy, France will lose much égalité and fraternité. Let's hope liberté is not diminished as well.
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Studs Terkel, Listener
Calvin Trillin : In celebration of Studs Terkel's 95th birthday, here's a tribute to a writer whose curiosity and generosity of spirit embraces everyone, without regard to rank or station.
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MacArthur Park
: Advocates pushing for reform and immigrants clamoring for justice in the streets will not forget the recent violence in Los Angeles.
Reviews
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At a Loss for Words
Michael Anderson : Ralph Ellison was eager to be counted in any political cause--except those surrounding race.
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The Dread Zone
John Leonard : It was never a question of whether, or even when, Don DeLillo would write a novel about 9/11. He has been writing it all along.
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The Brown Decades
Rachel Cohen : In an engaging new memoir, Carolyn Brown recollects her work with modern dance legends Merce Cunningham and John Cage.
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Among the Disbelievers
Daniel Lazare : In their rush to throw out God, atheist writers appear to have given little thought to what should replace Him.
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The Wharton School
Brenda Wineapple : A new biography describes how Edith Wharton transformed her obsessions into stories of loss, regret and entrapment.
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The New Face of Warfare
Fatin Abbas : Child soldiering has become a defining feature of modern warfare. And the United States has been all too complicit in the trend.
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The Imaginary Jew
William Deresiewicz : Two new novels, by Michael Chabon and Nathan Englander, recharge the modern Jewish experience with a sense of the exotic.
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Clowns With Kalashnikovs
James Miller : In his memoir, Régis Debray describes the evolution of his politics from his early days as a revolutionary to his later work advising the nominally socialist François Mitterrand.
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The Virtual Realist
Gene Seymour : Philip K. Dick has become the most influential and prophetic of late-twentieth-century science fiction writers.
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Night on Earth
Michael Wood : After Dark, Haruki Murakami's edgy new novel, describes how the lives of a group of strangers intersect over the course of one night.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
On Three Out of the Ten Republican Presidential Candidates Stating That They Don't Believe in Evolution
Calvin Trillin : The Big Bang is something else entirely.
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BEAT THE DEVIL
Who Are the Merchants of Fear?
Alexander Cockburn : A contrarian view on climate change.
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SUBJECT TO DEBATE
'Democracy' Is Hell
Katha Pollitt : In a gruesome marriage of technology and medieval barbarity, an Internet video records the stoning death of a 17-year-old Kurdish girl. Welcome to the new Iraq.
Web
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Agent of Intolerance
Max Blumenthal : Jerry Falwell is best known for crusading against abortion and homosexuality. But early on, he skillfully used race to galvanize the Christian right.
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Misjudging Women
Jessica Arons : In Gonzalez v. Carhart, Justice Anthony Kennedy has utterly changed the course of abortion jurisprudence.
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Howl
The Iraq Information Crackdown
Nicholas von Hoffman : The Iraqi government bans news footage of street carnage and the Pentagon blocks soldiers' access to YouTube and MySpace. Can we assume from this that the surge is going badly?
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TruthDig
Iran Nukes Call Bush's Bluff
Robert Scheer : Tehran's religious fanatics move closer to wreaking nuclear havoc, and what can Bush do about it? Nothing.
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television
The Simpsons Hit 400
Simon Maxwell Apter : Over eighteen seasons and three presidential eras, The Simpsons has paid badly animated homage to all that sucks in America.
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Broadband Redlining Targets Rural America
Steve Early : Will rural America become roadkill on the information superhighway?
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The Price of a Life
Tom Engelhardt : Sure, the US government values the lives of innocents killed in combat. Just how much depends on whether they died in New York, Afghanistan or Iraq.
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While We Slept
Stanley I. Kutler : A new book on the history of Western complicity in Iraq takes an unsparing look at how the first Bush and Clinton administrations set the stage for disaster.
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Outsourcing the War
Jeremy Scahill : Testimony to Congress on the impact of private military contractors in Iraq.
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Immigrants Push Western Union to Share the Wealth
Gabriel Thompson : Outraged at the 17 percent fees they are charged on money they wire home, immigrant workers are pressuring Western Union to reinvest the profits.
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film
Spider-Man 3: Third Time's (Not) the Charm
Stuart Klawans : Sam Raimi has loaded so many big ideas into Spider-Man 3, they drag this morality-soaked bag of kittens right down to the river's bottom.
Cover art by Doug Chayka; design: Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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