Rock & Roll Fantasies Rock & Roll Fantasies
It is a depressing rule for students of American political discourse that the more one happens to know about a given subject, the more amazing one finds the brazen ignorance that...
Jun 29, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
On the Road With Ralph Nader On the Road With Ralph Nader
On a spectacular spring day at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, about 1,500 college kids are sitting by the lake outside the student union, drinking beer, listening to bands...
Jun 29, 2000 / Feature / Ruth Conniff
Nader: A Personal View Nader: A Personal View
The Ralph Nader running for President this year is quite a different person from the driven crusader whom I first met as a young reporter, covering the advent of his public-inter...
Jun 29, 2000 / Feature / William Greider
The New World Order (They Mean It) The New World Order (They Mean It)
The United States never held a large number of direct colonies, a fact that has prompted many political leaders to declare it the great exception to colonialism.
Jun 29, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stanley Aronowitz
George Smiley, Move Over George Smiley, Move Over
"This is a story about a spy," writes Millicent Dillon in Harry Gold: A Novel.
Jun 29, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Elsa Dixler
MoMA: What’s in a Name? MoMA: What’s in a Name?
"Making Choices" at MoMA
Jun 29, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Smart and Smarter Smart and Smarter
In Me, Myself & Irene, Jim Carrey bullies a series of small children, gets into senseless fights (on the grounds that "he started it") and reverts hungrily to breast-feeding.
Jun 29, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Want to Know a Secret?–There Are No Secrets Want to Know a Secret?–There Are No Secrets
These days, the once highly revered nuclear weapons lab at Los Alamos is the butt of jokes and investigations over the latest revelation--that top-secret files supposedly locke...
Jun 27, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Do As We Say, Not As We Do Do As We Say, Not As We Do
What's wrong with this picture?: Slobodan Milosevic will be dragged before an international war crimes tribunal while Robert McNamara tours American college campuses touting hi...
Jun 26, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Give Us a Real Debate Give Us a Real Debate
The pernicious influence on politics of corporate money isn't confined to donations to candidates and parties.
Jun 22, 2000 / The Editors