Times Cries Eke! Buries Al Gore Times Cries Eke! Buries Al Gore
Florida revisited: Schadenfreude amid the carnage of the democratic process.
Nov 29, 2001 / Feature / Gore Vidal
Letters Letters
...AND APPLE PIE Ravello, Italy Katha Pollitt's heart-wrenching "Happy Mother's Day" was, of course, a treat ["Subject to Debate," May 28]. But the crystalli...
Jun 7, 2001 / Letters / Alexander Cockburn, Gore Vidal, Ken Silverstein, Susan Sontag, Gila Svirsky, Tarek Milleron, Matthew Runci, Holly Burkhalter, and Nathaniel A. Raymond
Democratic Vistas Democratic Vistas
We shall see very little of the charmingly simian George W. Bush—the military—Cheney, Powell et al.--will be calling the tune, and the whole nation will be on constant ...
Dec 22, 2000 / Editorial / Gore Vidal
Candid in Camera Candid in Camera
It all began in the heat of the summer of 1940. Hitler was at his peak in Europe. France had been defeated.
Sep 9, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Gore Vidal
The End of History The End of History
In 1996, Gore Vidal narrated his debacle defending the programs he wrote for the History Channel, which dealt with on the imperial aspects latent in the American presidency, to a p...
Sep 30, 1996 / Gore Vidal
Requiem for the American Empire Requiem for the American Empire
“Empires are restless organisms. They must constantly renew themselves; should an empire start leaking energy, it will die.”
Jan 11, 1986 / From the Archive / Gore Vidal
Some Jews & the Gays Some Jews & the Gays
Vidal on the new upper-middle-class Jewish hate of homosexuals.
Nov 14, 1981 / Gore Vidal