Vaginal Politics Vaginal Politics
Imagine Madison Square Garden brimming over with 18,000 laughing and ebullient women of every size, shape, age and color, along with their male friends, ditto. Imagine that in th...
Feb 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt
Vietnam: ‘Quagmire’ Quackery Vietnam: ‘Quagmire’ Quackery
Another book on the Vietnam War? Yes, and one well worth our attention. Enough time has now passed that A.J. Langguth's Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975 serves not only as a wonder...
Feb 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / David Rudenstine
SDS’s Other Wars SDS’s Other Wars
With over 100,000 members in college and university chapters, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was the largest and most significant of the 1960s New Left organizations in ...
Feb 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Jim Russell
Scarlet Letter’s Last Blush Scarlet Letter’s Last Blush
REBELS WITH A CAUSE A director, now an old man, alone, sits in his tidy house by the sea, everything in its place, the notebooks piled in their drawer, the letter opener and pen n...
Feb 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
The V-Word Is Heard The V-Word Is Heard
That 18,000 people--mostly female--filled Madison Square Garden, a basilica of boy-sport theology, on February 10 to watch a celebrity-packed performance of The Vagina Monologues...
Feb 15, 2001 / Margaret Spillane
A Short Course on Getting a Presidential Pardon While a Fugitive From Justice A Short Course on Getting a Presidential Pardon While a Fugitive From Justice
Apply a little grease (Denise). Then buy yourself an in (Jack Quinn).
Feb 15, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Letters Letters
THE SUITES & THE SWEATS New York City In "Economists vs. Students" [Feb. 12], Liza Featherstone and Doug Henwood cheer on students who demand tha...
Feb 15, 2001 / Doug Henwood, Liza Featherstone, Gene Santoro, and Our Readers
WBAI—The Coup on Wall Street WBAI—The Coup on Wall Street
Radio station WBAI is under attack from within in order to silence radical dissent.
Feb 15, 2001 / Mumia Abu-Jamal
Sorry, Wrong President Sorry, Wrong President
New recounts show that the wrong man is in the Oval Office.
Feb 8, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman
Bush Medicine for Africa Bush Medicine for Africa
The Bush Administration's health policies for Africa basically amount to the moral equivalent of the death penalty for 25 million people.
Feb 8, 2001 / Salih Booker