Books & the Arts

‘The Enemy Within’ ‘The Enemy Within’

There are perfectly respectable reasons to disagree with, dislike or distrust Jesse Jackson. His flaws as a human being are pretty well-known at this point. Some feel his politics...

Jun 27, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Patricia J. Williams

Jefferson’s Patsy? Jefferson’s Patsy?

No one has contributed more to the United States than James Madison. He was the principal architect of the Constitution, the brilliant theorist who, more than any other single ind...

Jun 20, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Carl T. Bogus

Riders on the Storm Riders on the Storm

Dread ripples through me as I listen to a phone message from our manager saying that we (The Doors) have another offer of huge amounts of money if we would just allow one of our s...

Jun 20, 2002 / Books & the Arts / John Densmore

Too Much Monkey Business Too Much Monkey Business

I received the news of paleontologist and popular science writer Stephen Jay Gould's death, at age 60, in the week I was reading Jonathan Marks's new book on genetics, human evolu...

Jun 20, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Micaela di Leonardo

Company Men Company Men

Although car chases are formulaic, they needn't be standard issue. One of the many substantial pleasures that The Bourne Identity offers is a thoughtful car chase, a loving car ch...

Jun 20, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

DYNASTIES! DYNASTIES!

How their wealth and power threaten democracy

Jun 20, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Kevin Phillips

Islam’s Divided Crescent Islam’s Divided Crescent

On September 23, 2001, midpoint between the horrific events of September 11 and the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, the New York Times ran an intriguing headline. "Forget the...

Jun 20, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Anthony Arnove

Ripped, Mixed-Up and Burned Ripped, Mixed-Up and Burned

On May 14, 2002, the first wave of Internet file-sharing died.

Jun 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Daphne G. Carr

France: The Film Vote France: The Film Vote

Politics were never far from anyone's mind at this year's fifty-fifth Cannes International Film Festival, which unfolded in a France still reeling from the shock of far-right cand...

Jun 13, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Leslie Camhi

A Bombmaker of Conscience A Bombmaker of Conscience

We are all fascinated by the lives of the powerful and famous, and in the last part of the twentieth century Andrei Sakharov became one of Russia's most famous. He burst onto the ...

Jun 13, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Dusko Doder

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