As the Press Turns As the Press Turns
Quick, pinch me--am I still living in the same country? Reading and watching the same media? This "Bob Woodward" fellow who co-wrote a tough piece in the May 18 Washington Post...
May 23, 2002 / Michael Tomasky
September 11 Questions September 11 Questions
George W. Bush, it is true, did not create the FBI's smug, insular, muscle-bound bureaucracy or the CIA's well-known penchant for loopy spy tips and wrongheaded geopolitical analy...
May 23, 2002 / The Editors
Dick Cheney’s Primer on the Constitution Dick Cheney’s Primer on the Constitution
So what's it called if during war you criticize the President for any reason? Treason. And how long does this war go on (and this is where this theory's really pretty clever)? ...
May 23, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Yaqui Way of Knowledge Yaqui Way of Knowledge
Although Chicano identity has been Luis Valdez's theme since all but the earliest years of El Teatro Campesino, the guerrilla theater he founded in the 1960s, getting a clear sens...
May 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Hal Gelb
In Cold Type In Cold Type
haven't done much mental spring cleaning because so much of the last month has been taken up with brooding and spewing about the crisis in the Middle East; no doubt the coming mon...
May 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
The Evolution of Darwinism The Evolution of Darwinism
Popular perception notwithstanding, the theory of natural selection was accepted by every serious evolutionist long before Darwin. Earlier scientists interpreted it as the cleares...
May 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / David Hawkes
Letters Letters
TORTURE 'OFF THE BOOKS'? Cambridge, Mass. William Schulz, in his respectful but selectively critical review of "less than two of [Shouting Fire]'s 550 page...
May 23, 2002 / Eric Alterman, William F. Schulz, and Our Readers
Knowledge (and Power) Knowledge (and Power)
For Senator Clinton to flourish a copy of the New York Post--the paper that has called her pretty much everything from Satanic to Sapphist--merely because it had the pungent headli...
May 23, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Justice Can’t Be Done in Secret Justice Can’t Be Done in Secret
Why public and press have a right to witness military tribunal proceedings.
May 23, 2002 / Feature / Edward J. Klaris
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
Pick: THE PARANOID STYLE IN AMERICAN POLITICS and Other Essays.
May 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro