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April 17, 2003
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April 3, 2003
Can We Talk?
CORRECTION: When this column was originally published, a fact-checking error caused the word “owner” to be removed from a reference to the Jewish “owner-editors” of U.S. News & World Report and The New Republic. This may have made it appear as if Alterman was addressing the issue of Jewish “editors” in general with regard to media coverage and Israel, rather than merely the two men he cited.
Eric Alterman
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March 20, 2003
Perle, Interrupted
Famed Prince of Darkness Richard Perle is a political animal unique to Washington.
Eric Alterman
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March 6, 2003
‘Rules for Changing the World’
This was intended to be a sweet little prewar column about an artist I admire, Rosanne Cash.
Eric Alterman
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February 20, 2003
Bad News, Film at 11
Like almost everything these days, local TV news is awful and getting worse.
Eric Alterman
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February 6, 2003
A ‘Good Man’ Is Not So Hard to Find
I was standing in line for Bowling for Columbine in Brussels not long ago with two writer/editor friends, when a 15-or-so-year-old Belgian boy in front of us turned around and inquired,
Eric Alterman
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January 23, 2003
State of Disunion
These are dangerous times. George W. Bush is set to make another State of the Union address.
Eric Alterman
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January 9, 2003
The Roamin’ Empire
During the 2000 campaign, candidate George W. Bush proclaimed that America must be “humble in how we treat nations that are figuring out how to chart their own course.” But that was then.
Eric Alterman
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December 18, 2002
Raines of Fire
New York Times executive editor Howell Raines shares, with his fellow liberal Southerner Al Gore, a talent for driving his opponents batty.
Eric Alterman
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December 5, 2002
Rawls and Us
The late John Rawls was, by all accounts, a remarkably modest and generous person, much beloved by his friends and students, and profoundly uninterested in the kinds of fame and celebrity perks
Eric Alterman