The Case Against Inaction The Case Against Inaction
Sadly, some on the left are angrier about NATO's bombing than they are about the Serbian forces' atrocities, even though Milosevic's men have killed more in one Kosovan village ...
Apr 8, 1999 / Ian Williams and Bogdan Denitch
Front Page With a Human Face Front Page With a Human Face
Back in the fifties, before the term "new journalism" was coined, back when Gay Talese was writing minor obituaries for the New York Times, Tom Wolfe was a grad student at Yale a...
Apr 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Dan Wakefield
Political Chapter, Bible Verse Political Chapter, Bible Verse
After writing this, her fourth book on the Christian right, Sara Diamond donated fourteen years' worth of research--right-wing pamphlets, fliers and position papers--to the Unive...
Apr 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Abby Scher
If Poverty Is the Question… If Poverty Is the Question…
What does it mean to be poor in America? We can offer no single description of American poverty.
Apr 1, 1999 / Paul Wellstone
Enter Steve Forbes Enter Steve Forbes
In '96 poor Forbes was thought
To be less zealous than he ought
To be on things like baby-killing.
So now he's showing that he's willing
Apr 1, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Srebrenica Revisited Srebrenica Revisited
During the Balkan war of 1912, Leon Trotsky was a war correspondent for a group of liberal Russian and Ukrainian newspapers.
Apr 1, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Better Ed Than Dead Better Ed Than Dead
Like the telephone before it, television has been an instrument for overcoming American loneliness.
Apr 1, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Destroying Kosovo Destroying Kosovo
The catastrophic effects of the air war against Serbia subvert the Clinton Administration's declared humanitarian intentions.
Apr 1, 1999 / The Editors
Comic Relief, NEA-Style Comic Relief, NEA-Style
The world is a bleak canvas, all black and white, with only some grays "so that the black and the white [don't] bump into each other so hard." The gods are quarrelsome and bored...
Apr 1, 1999 / Books & the Arts / JoAnn Wypijewski
The Jazz Singer The Jazz Singer
Most Americans don't like instrumental music.
Apr 1, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro