The Year of the Yellow Notepad The Year of the Yellow Notepad
Call it the year of the yellow notepad. Doris Kearns Goodwin, ejected from Parnassus, Pulitzer jury service and kindred honorable obligations, sinks under charges of plagiarism c...
Mar 21, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Contractions Contractions
It all began with a missing sheet of homework. "Contractions," my son had written very clearly in his assignment log. "What's this?" I asked when he announced he'd finished every...
Mar 21, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
The Politics of Ethics The Politics of Ethics
By identifying ethics with civic virtue, we create an ethics of the left.
Mar 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Randy Cohen
Letters Letters
'CREEPS' ON PARADE Lakeview, Ore. Wonderful to read David Corn on the return of all the creeps from contra ["Iran/Contra Rehab," March 11]. As a combat vet...
Mar 21, 2002 / Our Readers
Populism: The Thriller Populism: The Thriller
A few years ago I concocted a theory about John Grisham I was too lazy to prove. Here was the hypothesis: This bestselling author was the most successful popularizer of populist n...
Mar 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / David Corn
Artemisia and the Elders Artemisia and the Elders
In the vestibule of the superb exhibition of Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (until May 12), the organizers have installed a large colore...
Mar 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
The US & the Mideast The US & the Mideast
What was originally billed as Dick Cheney's mission to recruit Arab nations' support for ousting Saddam Hussein became a lecture tour on the urgency of dealing with the Israeli-Pa...
Mar 21, 2002 / The Editors
Shocked, Shocked! Enronian Myths Exposed Shocked, Shocked! Enronian Myths Exposed
Those who place the blame on executive greed may be missing the larger point.
Mar 21, 2002 / Feature / Thomas Frank
As Zimbabwe Goes… As Zimbabwe Goes…
On March 10 the citizens of a small African country went to the polls to cast their votes for an incumbent with a reputation as one of the continent's most unreconstructed tyrants...
Mar 21, 2002 / Mark Gevisser