Hoisting the Black Flag Hoisting the Black Flag
As the World Economic Forum met in New York City recently, the American media were much more concerned with what protesters were doing in the streets than with what they were say...
Feb 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Karen Rosenberg
Society of the Spectacle Society of the Spectacle
The slogans scrawled across the walls of Paris in May 1968 suggest possibilities most of us have forgotten or that were long ago deemed preposterous. "Never work!" said one sloga...
Feb 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jeremy Smith
Pierre Bourdieu, 1930-2002 Pierre Bourdieu, 1930-2002
The death on January 23 of the French philosopher and sociologist Pierre Bourdieu came as the American chattering classes were busy checking the math in Richard Posner's Public I...
Jan 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt
Filipineza Filipineza
In the modern Greek dictionary, the word "Filipineza" means "maid." If I became the brown woman mistaken for a shadow, please tell your people I'm a tree. Or its curli...
Jan 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Bino A. Realuyo
Politically Incorrect Politically Incorrect
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Jan 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
‘The Ghat of the Only World’: Agha Shahid Ali in Brooklyn ‘The Ghat of the Only World’: Agha Shahid Ali in Brooklyn
The first time that Agha Shahid Ali, the great Kashmiri poet, spoke to me about his approaching death was in April of last year. The conversation began routinely. I had telephone...
Jan 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amitav Ghosh
What Young Voters Want What Young Voters Want
They're looking for help with college and a reason to believe in government.
Jan 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Anna Greenberg
Wild, Wild West Wild, Wild West
You may have read, in these pages and elsewhere [see Danny Goldberg, "Harvard Raps West," February 4], about the flap that Harvard University's president, Lawrence Summers, kicke...
Jan 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour