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Mar 22, 2000 / Letters / Katha Pollitt and Our Readers
Cemetery Road Cemetery Road
Progressives are really grasping at straws these days. First we're supposed to get excited because Ralph Nader is running for President as a Green.
Mar 2, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Justice for Bernard Baran Justice for Bernard Baran
On January 30, 1985, 19-year-old Bernard Baran was convicted of molesting five 3-, 4- and 5-year-old boys and girls at the Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) in Pittsfield...
Feb 3, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Home Discomforts Home Discomforts
Isn't it curious how often the policy disaster that is posited as the thing that will never happen takes place within minutes?
Jan 6, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Prosecuting Innocence Prosecuting Innocence
Like countless parents, Cynthia Stewart of Oberlin, Ohio, is an ardent amateur photographer who loves to take pictures of her child.
Nov 25, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Anti-Choice, Anti-Child Anti-Choice, Anti-Child
One of the favorite tactics of pro-lifers--especially ones who are self-described "progressives"--is to accuse abortion rights supporters of being anti-child, hyperindividualisti...
Oct 28, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Catholic Bashing? Catholic Bashing?
My father disapproved of the "Sensation" show at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He thought it was bad for the Jews.
Oct 14, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt
‘Finality’ or Justice? ‘Finality’ or Justice?
Remember the bizarre daycare center "ritual abuse" trials of the eighties--the McMartin case in Los Angeles, the Little Rascals case in Edenton, North Carolina, the Kelly Micha...
Sep 18, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Polymaritally Perverse Polymaritally Perverse
I've always vowed I would never be one of those people--and you know who you are!--who cancel their ACLU membership in a fit of pique over a single issue.
Sep 16, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Weird Science Weird Science
My first thought upon hearing that the Kansas state education board had removed evolution from its mandatory curriculum was: Go ahead! Be like that! Handicap your kids for life.
Sep 2, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt