Big Labor’s Little Problem Big Labor’s Little Problem
At a "Lean Workplace School" for union members, sponsored by the monthly magazine Labor Notes in 1996, the discussion centered around how to fight employers' speed-up and worke...
Nov 6, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jane Slaughter
Sociobiology and You Sociobiology and You
If Steven Pinker's latest 500-page treatise on the brain, The Blank Slate, serves any wider purpose in the popular discussion of science issues, it will, one hopes, be the fina...
Oct 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Steven Johnson
Prosody in Motion Prosody in Motion
As you are no doubt aware, First Lady Laura Bush is a former teacher and has a master's degree in library science. This is all to the good.
Oct 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Art Winslow
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
The Right Way to Have Sex The Right Way to Have Sex
Debbie Nathan is an attendee of Feminist Futures, a New York-based study group whose organizers include Leonore Tiefer.
Oct 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Debbie Nathan
‘The Heart’s Garden’ ‘The Heart’s Garden’
The day that Kenneth Rexroth died was not a dark, cold day.
Oct 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella
In Our Orbit In Our Orbit
"Ifavor unconditional withdrawal from the territories," says a former head of Israel's security service, rather starkly, given his background. It's from an interview in this ed...
Oct 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
A Nation at Risk A Nation at Risk
A year ago Congress overwhelmingly approved George W.
Oct 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Peter Sacks
Taslima’s Pilgrimage Taslima’s Pilgrimage
"A war was about to start. Knots of wide-eyed people gathered in courtyards, in open fields, on street corners....
Oct 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Meredith Tax
Excursions in the Real World Excursions in the Real World
Why is so much fiction written in our language and why is so much of what is written of so little consequence?
Oct 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Patrick Smith