The Other Impeachment The Other Impeachment
Once before in American history, during the turbulent era of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War, a President was impeached by the House and tried before the Senate--Andre...
Dec 17, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
Saving Private Malick Saving Private Malick
For twenty years, Terrence Malick has been absent from the screen, abandoning the world's filmoids to their own devices: to watch Badlands and Days of Heaven till the pr...
Dec 17, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Bloody Cul-de-Sac The Bloody Cul-de-Sac
On March 16, 1978, Aldo Moro—a key figure of Italy’s ruling Christian Democracy—was captured in Rome in broad daylight by the Red Brigades.
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Stalin’s Grandchildren Stalin’s Grandchildren
“At the burial of communism too many people want to jump from the coffin into the funeral procession.”
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
The Apparatchiks The Apparatchiks
What price is Poland paying for its Stalinist heritage?
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Fact or Fiction? Fact or Fiction?
Jacques Attali cannot be too happy with the reason he is hugging the headlines.
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Dancing on the Grave of Revolution Dancing on the Grave of Revolution
1789 and all that.
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Unto Every One That Hath Unto Every One That Hath
When early Socialists dreamt of a society of equals, they could not even imagine a society with the productive capacities of America today. And yet equality looms more distant than...
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Three on Poland Three on Poland
In August 1980 the Gdansk shipyard workers astonished the world by winning the right to set up a genuinely independent labor union.
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Too Good to Be True Too Good to Be True
This is the rather flattering self-portrait of a populist leader who has already traveled quite far.
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer