Culture

Rehnquist’s Impeachment Gavel Rehnquist’s Impeachment Gavel

William Rehnquist was Richard Nixon's chief legal strategist when Nixon appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1971.

Dec 24, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Bruce Neuborne

Saving Private Malick Saving Private Malick

For twenty years, Terrence Malick has been absent from the screen, abandoning the world's filmoids to their own devices: to watch Badlands and Days of Heaven till the pr...

Dec 17, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

The Other Impeachment The Other Impeachment

Once before in American history, during the turbulent era of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War, a President was impeached by the House and tried before the Senate--Andre...

Dec 17, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner

The Gift of Time The Gift of Time

The case for abolition of nuclear weapons.

Feb 2, 1998 / Jonathan Schell

Three on Poland Three on Poland

In August 1980 the Gdansk shipyard workers astonished the world by winning the right to set up a genuinely independent labor union.

Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer

Stalin’s Grandchildren Stalin’s Grandchildren

“At the burial of communism too many people want to jump from the coffin into the funeral procession.”

Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer

Dancing on the Grave of Revolution Dancing on the Grave of Revolution

1789 and all that.

Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer

Communism and the Left Communism and the Left

Susan Sontag’s controversial speech at the February 6 event at New York City’s Town Hall event honoring Solidarity, and responses from writers on the left.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature

Fact or Fiction? Fact or Fiction?

Jacques Attali cannot be too happy with the reason he is hugging the headlines.

Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer

The Apparatchiks The Apparatchiks

What price is Poland paying for its Stalinist heritage?

Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer

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