How Now, Iron Johns? How Now, Iron Johns?
In Growing Up Absurd, his classic polemic on shortchanged youth, Paul Goodman remarks, parenthetically, that "the problems I want to discuss in this book belong primarily, in our...
Nov 25, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Ellen Willis
‘Our’ Gide? ‘Our’ Gide?
Whenever Gide wrote or spoke about himself directly, which was not infrequently, he would insist that his wars within were to be traced to his very genes.
Nov 25, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Patrick Smith
Insider Enrichment Insider Enrichment
When the Clinton Administration privatized the United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC) last year, critics warned that the new company would seek to back out of a historic but...
Nov 25, 1999 / Ken Silverstein and Ian Urbina
Curtain Call With Terkel Curtain Call With Terkel
Charles Kuralt, who got around a lot himself but wore out faster, once remarked: "When Studs Terkel listens, everybody talks." Not so many years ago, in fact, we asked Kuralt to ...
Nov 25, 1999 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
There You Go Again… There You Go Again…
Our correspondent, longtime Los Angeles Times reporter and columnist Robert Scheer, has spent several hours over the years questioning President Reagan on a variety of subjec
Nov 25, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Robert Scheer
Missing in Action Missing in Action
The candidates are constantly reviewed.
The questions raised by analysts include:
Will Pat Buchanan matter as a mauler?
Nov 18, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Whose Trade? Whose Trade?
PARTICIPANTS IN THE FORUM
Walden Bello, author of Dark Victory: The United States and Global Poverty (Food First), is executive director of the Bangkok-b
Nov 18, 1999 / Feature / Various Contributors
The People vs. the WTO The People vs. the WTO
The thousands of demonstrators who will greet the World Trade Organization delegates in Seattle on November 30 will have many voices but one message: The attempt to write a const...
Nov 18, 1999 / The Editors
Signs of the Times Signs of the Times
When Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band opened the opulent new Staples Center in LA on October 17, the Jersey Troubadour had a few choice words for those watching from the l...
Nov 18, 1999 / Column / Eric Alterman
1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize of $10,000, awarded annually for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States by an American, is administered mutually by th...
Nov 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Marilyn Hacker