Living Wage Comes of Age Living Wage Comes of Age
An increasingly sophisticated movement has put opponents on the defensive.
Jul 12, 2001 / Feature / Bobbi Murray
Gender Unbender Gender Unbender
Pierre Bourdieu's newsworthiness has become news. The profile of him in the New York Times deals more with how bright his star is than with its substance, and quite a bit of the a...
Jul 12, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter
A.I. at Universal U A.I. at Universal U
Thinks..., David Lodge's new novel about cognitive science, university politics and marital infidelity, shows once again the author's knack for making intellectual concepts user-f...
Jul 12, 2001 / Books & the Arts / David L. Sweet
A Strong Dollar Clouds Prospects For Quick Rebound A Strong Dollar Clouds Prospects For Quick Rebound
--Headline, New York Times The dollar's strong. That must be good. It's doing what a dollar should. Not so. The world cannot afford our...
Jul 12, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Letters Letters
THE HUDSON, THE MOON, THE JEJUNE Washington, DC Eric Alterman's July 2 "Full-Court Press" insinuates that the Hudson Institute "sent [scholar Evan Gahr] pa...
Jul 12, 2001 / Our Readers
Virtual Pinocchio Virtual Pinocchio
Why did Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick want Spielberg to direct Kubrick's A.I., the fable of a robot who wants a human mother's love? Imagine the personals ad Kubrick might ...
Jul 12, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Tim Appelo
Mother Courage Mother Courage
Kate Millett. Feminist, sculptor, lesbian, activist, advocate, New Yorker to the core. Just over thirty years ago, Millett published the hugely influential bestseller Sexual Polit...
Jul 12, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Hillary Frey
Questions for Ashcroft Questions for Ashcroft
As the Senate begins its hearings on the nomination of John Ashcroft as Attorney General, it is important to focus on the different roles that his office plays in the administrati...
Jul 9, 2001 / Leon Friedman