‘Finality’ or Justice? ‘Finality’ or Justice?
Remember the bizarre daycare center "ritual abuse" trials of the eighties--the McMartin case in Los Angeles, the Little Rascals case in Edenton, North Carolina, the Kelly Micha...
Sep 18, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt
George W. Bush’s Education Plan George W. Bush’s Education Plan
A public school whose students don't test well Would lose some funds unless its score improves. If cutting funds won't help the kids advance,
Sep 16, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Polymaritally Perverse Polymaritally Perverse
I've always vowed I would never be one of those people--and you know who you are!--who cancel their ACLU membership in a fit of pique over a single issue.
Sep 16, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt
On the Possibility That Pat Buchanan Will Run as a Third-Party Candidate On the Possibility That Pat Buchanan Will Run as a Third-Party Candidate
Buchanan hints he's leaving. The GOP says, "Stay!" They fear that he'd be draining The wacko vote away.
Sep 9, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Little Limbaughs and the Fire Next Time Little Limbaughs and the Fire Next Time
Residents of Skaneateles, New York, complained to visiting reporters about the Clintons' decision to make themselves relatively scarce on their recent vacation.
Sep 9, 1999 / Column / Eric Alterman
Weird Science Weird Science
My first thought upon hearing that the Kansas state education board had removed evolution from its mandatory curriculum was: Go ahead! Be like that! Handicap your kids for life.
Sep 2, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The Commentary School of Falsification The Commentary School of Falsification
Israeli schoolchildren returned to their desks this year to find a new history curriculum.
Sep 2, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
The Rest of Them Are Clean The Rest of Them Are Clean
Elizabeth Dole won't break the law. McCain has scored no coke. The thought of Hatch with smack or crack Is palpably baroque.
Sep 2, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
A Word of Sympathy for Candidates Who Did Not Do Well in the Ames Voting A Word of Sympathy for Candidates Who Did Not Do Well in the Ames Voting
It really would stick in the craw To find that you had to withdraw From such a big race For not keeping pace In a poll that was nothing but straw.
Aug 19, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
And the Enemy Is… And the Enemy Is…
Patricia Williams will be on leave for the remainder of the year, returning to this space in January 2000.
Aug 19, 1999 / Column / Patricia J. Williams