Pacifica Static Pacifica Static
The temblors around Ground Zero Berkeley, otherwise known as station KPFA, seemed to be diminishing, but there were lingering aftershocks.
Aug 5, 1999 / The Editors
Bradley’s Long Shot Bradley’s Long Shot
How do you beat a sitting vice president in a presidential nomination contest? There's no established game plan, because no one's ever done it.
Aug 5, 1999 / David Corn
Have We Reason to Believe? Have We Reason to Believe?
Scratch a philosopher, find a reductionist revolutionary.
Aug 5, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Carlin Romano
Hitler’s Viennese Waltz Hitler’s Viennese Waltz
"Austria had many geniuses, and that was probably its undoing."
--Robert Musil
Jul 22, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter
Ex-Prom Queen Goes Home Ex-Prom Queen Goes Home
Thomas Wolfe wrote that you can't go home again. Alix Kates Shulman disagrees.
Jul 22, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Beverly Gologorsky
Old Masters Old Masters
For contemporary reactions from Nation critics to the films of Stanley Kubrick, follow these links: Lolita (1962), Dr. Strangelove (1964), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The Shining...
Jul 22, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Remembering the 1993 Healthcare Debate While Listening to the 1999 Healthcare Debate Remembering the 1993 Healthcare Debate While Listening to the 1999 Healthcare Debate
The single-payer system, it was said,
Has faults that go beyond the fact it's Red:
If any faceless bureaucrat decreed
That surgery the doctor says you need
Jul 22, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Pricks Up Your Ears Pricks Up Your Ears
In the August 9/16 issue of The Nation, Alexander Cockburn discusses Pacifica's alleged plans to use "scab" programming. KPFK General Manager Mark Schubb has told The Nation that h...
Jul 22, 1999 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Still Not Over Over There? Still Not Over Over There?
The estimates of the number of books written about World War I are in the hundreds of thousands.
Jul 22, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Hans Koning
Poetry’s Ball Turret Gunner Poetry’s Ball Turret Gunner
Has anyone read John Dennis? Irving Babbitt? Gorham Munson? Probably not, though they were considered important critics in their day.
Jul 22, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Alfred Corn