Egg on the Brain Egg on the Brain
It may look as if domestic politics no longer exists in the new America--the one in which there is no money for anything besides guns and prisons but we don't care because we are...
Feb 14, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Kenny Boy Kenny Boy
(A Houston version of the Irish folk song) Oh, Kenny Boy, your friends are disappearing. They don't know you, much less your kvetchy wife. Yes, it's sad when pols that y...
Feb 14, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Enron Flew Under the Radar Enron Flew Under the Radar
Is the Enron story one of outrageous mendacity or stupefying ignorance?
Feb 13, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Axis Me No Questions… Axis Me No Questions…
George W. Bush's State of the Union address has laid bare his Administration's political strategy. It is to manipulate the grief, anger and patriotism inspired by September 11 to...
Feb 7, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman
Take This Prize and Shove It Take This Prize and Shove It
Right till the end of January, Dita Sari, an Indonesian in her late 20s, was preparing to fly from her home near Jakarta to Salt Lake City to bask in the admiration of assorted d...
Feb 7, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
A Summary of the Response of Democratic Loyalists to the Prospects of Another Presidential Race by Albert Gore A Summary of the Response of Democratic Loyalists to the Prospects of Another Presidential Race by Albert Gore
Recalling what took place before,
We must implore Al Gore: No more.
Feb 7, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Bad Hair Day Bad Hair Day
We have reached the point that the idea of liberty, an idea relatively recent and new, is already in the process of fading from our consciences and our standards of morality, t...
Feb 7, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
An Orgy of Defense Spending An Orgy of Defense Spending
Now we get to see just how cowardly the Democrats in Congress can be.
Feb 5, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
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
Enron Hearings Enron Hearings
(With apologies to Stephen Foster) The Enron hearings stretch ahead, Doo-dah, doo-dah, Until the final soundbite's said. Oh, doo-dah day. Pols will posture night...
Jan 31, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin