Several staggered rows of grayish papier-mâum;ché headstones have sprouted on the grassy quad of Santa Monica College–the crown jewel of Southern California’s once envied and now bat
In this space last week, I commented that the choice for the United States in North Korea was probably between a catastrophic war and permitting North Korea to keep its nuclear program and its
Congratulations to Katha Pollitt, winner of the National Magazine Award in the Columns and Commentary category. Katha also won the 1992 award in Essays & Criticism.
Over the past few months, yet another epidemic has come to trouble our unhappy world. Shortly after SARS was identified, the entire globe was put on notice.
Lately, presidential contender Howard Dean has been likening himself to the late Senator Paul Wellstone.
The best names in Wall Street, who besmirched themselves with double-dealing stock-market scandals, were finally “punished” recently, and the miscreants could not contain their glee.
In most of the world, it’s the sign for peace, but here in Argentina it means war.
Recently Congress released transcripts of secret testimony of witnesses summoned before Senator Joseph McCarthy’s infamous subcommittee in hearings that impugned the patriotism of everyone from
Come June 4, Ed Rosenthal will be back in US District Court in San Francisco, to hear what sentence Judge Charles Breyer has decided to impose.
Bill Bennett told a grateful nation,
“Be moral. Just resist temptation.”
By windbag airing of this thesis,
Bill Bennett got as rich as Croesus.
The announcement a few weeks ago that Partisan Review was closing shop after a run of nearly seventy years brought sadness–since PR at its best was a central site of American cul
In the current national climate, the notion that Washington might learn from the experience of former Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev or Mikhail Gorbachev would strike most as ludicrous.
It is agonizingly difficult to write about one’s hometown as it drowns in flames and suffocates with smoke.