An Antisocial Idea An Antisocial Idea

Just because the ed whiz-biz politicians and the education bureaucrats have announced the end of "social promotion" doesn't mean that it ever existed--not for the past thirty yea...

Feb 16, 2000 / Feature / Susan Ohanian

Dade Ain’t Disney Dade Ain’t Disney

Tired of all the stuff about the Cuban kid who is rapidly being turned into the most pampered brat in the world? The press can be blamed, of course.

Feb 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Robert Sherrill

Salvation in South Africa Salvation in South Africa

Blessed with a great subject, afflicted with it too, J.M. Coetzee has remade its meanings in the light of metaphor often no further from us than our own bodies.

Feb 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Joseph McElroy

Craven Idolatry Craven Idolatry

For someone who misspent his youth in film societies and revival houses, where mushrooms develop more readily than social skills, a job as a movie reviewer wonderfully eases the ...

Feb 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

It’s Much Too Absurd to Be Real, So Let’s Make ‘Star Wars’ a Game It’s Much Too Absurd to Be Real, So Let’s Make ‘Star Wars’ a Game

Te Bush Administration is looking to revive Reagan's Star Wars system, but why not resurrect something better from his legacy?

Feb 13, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

The McCain Insurgency The McCain Insurgency

Every presidential contest in the past two decades has produced something of a quasi populist--a mad-as-hell candidate of the left, right or center who runs against the establish...

Feb 10, 2000 / David Corn

Farewell, Gary Bauer Farewell, Gary Bauer

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Farewell, adieu to Gary Bauer.
We never thought that you'd be our
Next President. Too small. Too sour.
The countryside we'd have to scour

Feb 10, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Remembering in Black and White Remembering in Black and White

It may be my imagination, but this year Black History Month has seemed to present a more complicated range of memorials than in the recent past.

Feb 10, 2000 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

The Plutonium Files The Plutonium Files

Eileen Welsome, a mild-mannered 48-year-old reporter laboring away in obscurity for a tiny afternoon newspaper in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is no one's idea of a media Bigfoot.

Feb 10, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman

What They Do Know Can Hurt You What They Do Know Can Hurt You

This article is adapted by permission from Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century (O'Reilly).

Feb 10, 2000 / Feature / Simson L. Garfinkel