The Gods Must Be Crazy The Gods Must Be Crazy
"Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply felt religious faith--and I don't care what it is." Thus spoke the noted theologian Dwight Eisenhower on Flag Day ...
Oct 28, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare
About Henry About Henry
Henry James is not a name that springs to mind when we think of adventure stories, prose epics or historical fiction.
Oct 14, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Brenda Wineapple
Learning to Love the Bomb Learning to Love the Bomb
While I saw Edward Teller at several scientific conferences and heard him lecture, I met him only once. It left an indelible memory. It was at the end of April 1954.
Oct 14, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Jeremy Bernstein
Dissent at 50 Dissent at 50
In the summer of 1953, the New School for Social Research hung a yellow curtain over a mural by the Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco. Orozco's transgression?
Oct 14, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Scott Sherman
Picking Up the Pieces Picking Up the Pieces
Brian Wilson began recording his masterpiece, Smile, in 1966; the project collapsed a year later, unfinished.
Oct 7, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Douglas Wolk
Office Politics Office Politics
As one of those pathetic evolutionary throwbacks who has never used e-mail or the Internet, and has hardly ever handled a mobile phone, I can approach this book with all the supr...
Oct 7, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Terry Eagleton
Rhythm Nation Rhythm Nation
Since Fidel Castro's brief fainting spell during a speech in June 2001, Miami, Havana and Washington have been caldrons of feverish speculation on his succession and the politics...
Oct 7, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Ann Louise Bardach
Liberal Hawk Down Liberal Hawk Down
This essay is adapted from Anatol Lieven's next book, America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism, to be published this month by Oxford University Press.
Oct 7, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Anatol Lieven
When Presidents Lie When Presidents Lie
Official dishonesty is never worthwhile.
Oct 7, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
‘There Are No Innocents’ ‘There Are No Innocents’
An oppressive and beleaguered empire, a terrorist international, a storm raging in the world press about torture, right-wing Christians on the march against moral decline and the...
Oct 7, 2004 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn