War and Remembrance War and Remembrance
In a provocative book published recently in Germany, a Hamburg scholar named Klaus Briegleb appeared to take on the entire national literary establishment for indulging in self...
Mar 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Hugh Eakin
Guns in the Courtroom Guns in the Courtroom
In the late summer and fall of 1997, small news leaks began appearing that Mayor Edward Rendell of Philadelphia (who is now governor of Pennsylvania) was thinking about suing t...
Mar 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Carl T. Bogus
Court Reporter Court Reporter
On June 4, 1961, John F. Kennedy held his last meeting with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna.
Mar 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Dusko Doder
Storm Warnings for a Supply-Side War Storm Warnings for a Supply-Side War
There's nothing like a compelling icon when no compelling argument is available.
Mar 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Ian S. Lustick
The Crawford Conundrum The Crawford Conundrum
Say what you will about Michael Lind, at least he's never predictable. That is, of course, unless your prediction is that he's once again trying to find a way to disagree with ...
Feb 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Theodore Hamm
Slumming Toward Academia Slumming Toward Academia
Only the joy of capitalist expectation could move a pre-Reagan-born American to utter the line "civil rights is dead," let alone write a book devoted to that proposition.
Feb 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Armond White
Biodiversity and You Biodiversity and You
As the Earth's population surges toward the 7 billion mark, the following twist on an old maxim perhaps best applies: A single birth is a joyous occasion. A billion births is a...
Feb 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Tatiana Siegel
What’s a Neoliberal to Do? What’s a Neoliberal to Do?
In the 1960s it seemed as if the Third World was in flames, fueled by anti-imperialist struggles from Cuba to Vietnam, Bolivia to Algeria.
Feb 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Greg Grandin
Who’s in Charge? Who’s in Charge?
On October 4, 2001--less than a month after that horrific day--George W. Bush and the members of his National Security Council were nailing down the details of the coming war i...
Feb 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Corn
The New Product Placement The New Product Placement
Last fall, a half-dozen child psychologists lurked around New York's Yale Club at a convention called "Advertising & Promoting to Kids" in search of new, higher-paying clie...
Feb 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Segall