Rights on the Line Rights on the Line
Recent days have brought the first tentative but welcome roadblocks to the Bush Administration's war-fevered assault on civil liberties. In Newark, Superior Court Judge Arthur D'I...
Apr 4, 2002 / The Editors
Two Middle East Wars Two Middle East Wars
Two Palestinian-Israeli wars have erupted in this region. One is the Palestinian nation's war for its freedom from occupation and for its right to independent statehood. Any decen...
Apr 4, 2002 / Amos Oz
Tests, Tracking and Derailment Tests, Tracking and Derailment
As state budgets around the country are slashed to accommodate the expense of the war on terror, the pursuit of educational opportunity for all seems ever more elusive. While sta...
Apr 4, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Microbes at the Gates Microbes at the Gates
Odds are good that on a plane or boat or bus somewhere in the world sits a refugee headed for the United States carrying the seeds of a weapon of mass destruction. The agent he un...
Apr 4, 2002 / Wendy Johnson
Right Watch Right Watch
With compromise legislation stranded in Congress, the report card on the President's faith-based initiative reads "incomplete." Bush, however, has clearly succeeded on two fronts.
Apr 4, 2002 / Feature / Bill Berkowitz
Monterrey and the World Monterrey and the World
How are we to read the International Conference on Financing for Development, which recently concluded in Monterrey, Mexico? Just another United Nations talkathon?
Apr 4, 2002 / Feature / Patrick Smith
Lieberman in Enronland Lieberman in Enronland
It has come to this: The investigation of Enron as a political scandal appears for now to depend on Senator Joseph Lieberman, an Enron Democrat who bagged Enron campaign contribut...
Mar 28, 2002 / The Editors
The God Squad The God Squad
Was it lack of space or was it lack of time that made Katha Pollitt so bland and lenient about the current state of religious leadership in our country and our culture ["God C...
Mar 28, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Adventures in Book Reviewing Adventures in Book Reviewing
Back in 1994, Christina Hoff Sommers accused The New York Times Book Review of unfairly assigning her attack on the women's movement, Who Stole Feminism?, to the distinguished sc...
Mar 28, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The Fishnet Fallacy The Fishnet Fallacy
When a girl becomes her school's designated slut, her friends stop talking to her. Pornographic rumors spread with dazzling efficiency, boys harass her openly in the hallways, gir...
Mar 28, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Elaine Blair