The War on Academic Freedom The War on Academic Freedom
The year since Congress passed the USA Patriot Act has brought an ever-growing enemies list from our nation's thought police.
Nov 11, 2002 / Feature / Kristine McNeil
The Scourge of Baltimore The Scourge of Baltimore
As truth-tellers, journalists remain the undocumented aliens of the knowledge industry, operating in an off-the-books epistemological economy apart from philosophers and scient...
Nov 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Carlin Romano
In Cold Type In Cold Type
Until and unless a nonhuman animal becomes a legal person, she will remain invisible to civil law." This quote from the legal profile in Bark magazine's fall issue in many ways...
Oct 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
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
Hawks at the Washington Post Hawks at the Washington Post
The house organ for America's political class is pushing Bush's case for war.
Oct 24, 2002 / Feature / Michael Massing
Web Journalism’s Sticky Pages Web Journalism’s Sticky Pages
Legendary New York Times obit writer Alden Whitman once observed, "Death, the cliché assures us, is the great leveler; but it obviously levels some a great deal more tha...
Sep 19, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Tatiana Siegel
On Culturing a Union On Culturing a Union
American labor still pays lip service to the idea that it seeks "bread and roses too"--a higher standard of living, plus the chance for workers to enjoy some of the finer thing...
Sep 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Steve Early
CNN Rushes Rush* CNN Rushes Rush*
I probably should listen to Rush Limbaugh, but I don't. The way I figure it, I did my time while researching my book Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot.
Sep 11, 2002 / Al Franken
Devil in a Blue Dress Devil in a Blue Dress
"My only regret with Osama bin Laden is that he did not manage to kill every member of the Wall Street Journal editorial staff." "In this recurring nightmare of a presid...
Sep 5, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman