Sociobiology and You Sociobiology and You
If Steven Pinker's latest 500-page treatise on the brain, The Blank Slate, serves any wider purpose in the popular discussion of science issues, it will, one hopes, be the fina...
Oct 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Steven Johnson
The Right Way to Have Sex The Right Way to Have Sex
Debbie Nathan is an attendee of Feminist Futures, a New York-based study group whose organizers include Leonore Tiefer.
Oct 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Debbie Nathan
Mr. Feiffer Regrets Mr. Feiffer Regrets
Cartoonist Jules Feiffer dropped a pinpoint protest on First Lady Laura Bush's National Book Festival on October 12 in Washington.
Oct 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jules Feiffer
More Bitter Fruit More Bitter Fruit
Six years ago, in 1996, the government of Guatemala and the guerrilla groups it had fought bitterly for thirty-six years signed an ambitious set of peace accords.
Oct 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Peter Canby
Love, Sandler Style Love, Sandler Style
Although I'm mad for Paul Thomas Anderson's new picture, Punch-Drunk Love, I also suspect it's made me a little crazy.
Oct 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Rockin’ in the Free World Rockin’ in the Free World
In a weapons producing nation under Jesus
In the fabled crucible of the free world
Camera crews search for clues amid the detritus
And entertainment shapes the land
Oct 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
“It’s hard to imagine a more boring book” than Robinson Crusoe, declares Gilles Deleuze, “it’s sad to see children still reading it.
Oct 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Sandy McCroskey
Did the CIA Blow the Call? Did the CIA Blow the Call?
Shortly after Ronald Reagan became President of the United States, the nation's capital got a second morning newspaper. Eventually, Dr. Ronald Goodwin, formerly the Rev.
Oct 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Dusko Doder
Fire at Will Fire at Will
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Oct 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
The Culture Blockade The Culture Blockade
The Bush Administration seems to be gunning to make history as the first great unilateralist government of the twenty-first century.
Oct 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / James Ledbetter