The Commentary School of Falsification The Commentary School of Falsification
Israeli schoolchildren returned to their desks this year to find a new history curriculum.
Sep 2, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Harnessing the Rising Sun Harnessing the Rising Sun
Americans aren't much for history these days. History is for Europeans--for Germans, with their thickets of theory, and the French, who are forever going on about their revolutio...
Sep 2, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Patrick Smith
Does Europe Do It Better? Does Europe Do It Better?
Listen to a debate among drug policy advocates and you're likely to hear impassioned claims about the brilliant success (or dismal failure) of more "liberal" approaches in certai...
Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Robert J. MacCoun and Peter Reuter
Kilroy Was There Kilroy Was There
In the summer of 1941, Adolf Hitler's apparently invincible Wehrmacht was grinding hundreds of miles into the Soviet Union, spreading mayhem all the way.
Sep 2, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Tom Wicker
Colombia’s Best Hope Colombia’s Best Hope
Research support provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute.
Aug 19, 1999 / Ana Carrigan
Russia and Election 2000 Russia and Election 2000
President Boris Yeltsin's firing of his fifth Prime Minister in seventeen months and Russia's renewed war in the Caucasus are stark signs of his regime's instability, desperation...
Aug 19, 1999 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Hitler’s Viennese Waltz Hitler’s Viennese Waltz
"Austria had many geniuses, and that was probably its undoing."
--Robert Musil
Jul 22, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter
Chile Declassified Chile Declassified
On September 28, 1973, seventeen days after the bloody coup that brought Gen.
Jul 22, 1999 / Feature / Peter Kornbluh
Meanwhile, in Iraq… Meanwhile, in Iraq…
NATO's nightly airstrikes against Yugoslavia have ceased, but the periodic Anglo-American bombing of Iraq continues.
Jul 8, 1999 / Dilip Hiro
Spy or Savior? Spy or Savior?
If Russia is not to dissolve like the Soviet Union or, worse yet, end in a cataclysm like Yugoslavia's, it must negotiate peacefully across a welter of emotional claims to self-det...
Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / George Kenney