Independence: An Endangered Species? Independence: An Endangered Species?
The hopes of many for the birth and sustenance of independent web journalism took a body blow recently when all 140 employees of the APBnews.com crime news site were let go with ...
Jun 15, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman
David Horowitz’s Long March David Horowitz’s Long March
Research assistance was provided by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute.
Jun 15, 2000 / Feature / Scott Sherman
A Literature From Below A Literature From Below
The role of the public intellectual--and the moral onus, assuming that one exists--seems ever to thread the Scylla of celebrity and the Charybdis of marginality.
Jun 15, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Günter Grass
Second-Wave Soundings Second-Wave Soundings
The women's liberation movement, as it was called in the sixties and seventies, was the largest social movement in the history of the United States--and probably in the world.
Jun 15, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Linda Gordon and Rosalyn Baxandall
Killing Him Lets Us Off the Hook Killing Him Lets Us Off the Hook
It's difficult to get over the idea that we failed Timothy McVeigh and that his execution fails us all. How deceptive a finale it is that leaves history neatly packaged in the ce...
Jun 12, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
How a Caged Bird Learns to Sing How a Caged Bird Learns to Sing
This article is adapted from a lecture that was part of a series on self-censorship in the media given at New York University. The lecture series is being published this month in T...
Jun 8, 2000 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
Reno: Getting It From All Sides Reno: Getting It From All Sides
A week after she ordered federal agents to seize Elián González from his relatives in Miami, Republican critics were snarling, the Miami Cuban community was venti...
Jun 8, 2000 / Feature / Lars-Erik Nelson
‘Spies’ Under the Persian Rug ‘Spies’ Under the Persian Rug
Early in the morning on Tuesday, May 2, as I opened my apartment door to pick up the New York Times, I was struck by a large front-page picture of a man in Iranian prison unifo...
Jun 8, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Mansour Farhang
Prince Albert in a Can Prince Albert in a Can
What's the meaning of Al Gore? Or George Bush?
Jun 8, 2000 / Books & the Arts / David Corn
McCullers: Canon Fodder? McCullers: Canon Fodder?
What makes an American writer? In today's narrow, backlashed literary market the chain of command is quite clear. The "greats" are Updike, Pynchon, Mailer, Bellow and Roth.
Jun 8, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Schulman