Back in the fifties, before the term “new journalism” was coined, back when Gay Talese was writing minor obituaries for the New York Times, Tom Wolfe was a grad student at Yale and Joan Di
Confronted with the inexplicable, policy-makers and pundits alike grope for the apt historical analogy. It’s a natural human reaction.
We want to change the world, and, therefore, we must ponder why people now have less confidence in the possibility of moving beyond the reign of capital than their ancestors did more than 150 year
Whoever does not fight at Kosovo…
May nothing bear fruit that his hand sows.
–Serb epic
President Clinton’s decision to use military force against the Serbs was not simply a calculated response to Slobodan Milosevic’s intransigence.
President Clinton’s address attempting to justify–after the fact–the US-led NATO bombing of Serbia should set off alarms.
During the Balkan war of 1912, Leon Trotsky was a war correspondent for a group of liberal Russian and Ukrainian newspapers.
It’s a good thing Bill and Monica held their trysts in the White House rather than just across the Potomac, in Falls Church or Arlington, Virginia.