Books and Ideas

The Tao of Borat The Tao of Borat

What are we laughing at when we laugh at Borat?

Nov 2, 2006 / Editorial / Richard Goldstein

What Bush Has Wrought What Bush Has Wrought

We are now led by a false warrior who acts the simpleton, while playing to his version of what Middle America wants. To stop the madness, on November 7 voters must soundly repudiat...

Nov 1, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Robert Scheer

GOP Throws All Financial Support Behind One Candidate GOP Throws All Financial Support Behind One Candidate

The National Republican Congressional Committee allocates its remaining $256 million cash-on-hand to an Arizona incumbent in the hopes of retaining at least one House seat.

Nov 1, 2006 / From The Onion / The Nation

The New World Order The New World Order

Two new books examine the diverse and ambitious alliances that led to the end of slavery in America.

Oct 26, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Robin Blackburn

French Lessons French Lessons

The history of twentieth-century France depicts a struggle between the republican ideal of a unitary state and the shifting concerns of a pluralistic society.

Oct 26, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Sunil Khilnani

New White House Strategy on Iraq New White House Strategy on Iraq

What passes now for West Wing policy is whatever will cover their collective derrieres.

Oct 26, 2006 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Mars Rover Beginning To Hate Mars Mars Rover Beginning To Hate Mars

The unmanned vehicle is "bored out of its mind."

Oct 24, 2006 / From The Onion / The Nation

Bush: Thousands of Registered Democrats Needed For ‘Extremely Important’ Mission Bush: Thousands of Registered Democrats Needed For ‘Extremely Important’ Mission

President Bush said Monday that members of the opposition party are the only ones who can make the November operation a success.

Oct 21, 2006 / From The Onion / The Nation

Marie Antoinette, the Upspeak Version Marie Antoinette, the Upspeak Version

It doesn't matter that Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette is a dreadful film, but it is alarming that the past is increasingly seen as a place in which the most important thing of al...

Oct 20, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Mark Steel

Death in the Family Death in the Family

Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost represents one man's search to find the truth about himself, his family and the Holocaust.

Oct 19, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Gideon Lewis-Kraus

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