A Faithful Servant A Faithful Servant
Most Americans take their system of government for granted, as if Moses himself had delivered the Constitution engraved on marble tablets.
Feb 5, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Ian Williams
A Tragedy of Errors A Tragedy of Errors
About a decade ago, I invented a game with a colleague of mine who, like me, had once worked for Irving Kristol. We called it neoconservative bingo.
Feb 5, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Michael Lind
McNamara: The Sequel McNamara: The Sequel
Apparently to McNamara's mortification, Errol Morris, whose film The Fog of War I discussed in my last column here, passes over his subject's thirteen-year stint running the Worl...
Feb 5, 2004 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
For a man ostensibly telling us what narcissism means to him, Tony Hoagland sure lets his friends do a lot of the talking. But maybe that's the point. In other people, he sees hi...
Jan 30, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Megan Marz
Our Man in Chile Our Man in Chile
When Chilean President Salvador Allende was overthrown in a bloody coup on September 11, 1973, the Nixon Administration declared its support for the "preservation of Chilea...
Jan 29, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Nina Englander
Men in Black Men in Black
Several generations of doomy, bookish youth have grown up listening to the Cure.
Jan 29, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Douglas Wolk
Willi the Red Willi the Red
"This act of incendiarism is the most monstrous act of terrorism so far carried out," reported a 1933 Berlin newspaper.
Jan 29, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby
The Business of Theory The Business of Theory
The last decade or two have witnessed an insidious shift in American culture, one that goes to the heart of the way we talk about our society.
Jan 29, 2004 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz
The New ‘Great Game’ The New ‘Great Game’
In Central Asia, powerful players are competing for influence and energy sources.
Jan 29, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Lutz Kleveman
Europa, Europa Europa, Europa
Considered as a subset of the road movie, the post-Holocaust, return-to-Poland documentary has been a dismayingly static genre. Most of these films are journeys in only the physi...
Jan 28, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans