The ‘Right’ Books and Big Ideas The ‘Right’ Books and Big Ideas
Abigail Thernstrom, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and her husband, Harvard professor Stephan Thernstrom, would like to thank the John M.
Nov 4, 1999 / Feature / Eric Alterman
A Dialectical Humanism A Dialectical Humanism
To my distress and perhaps to my delight, I order things in accordance with my passions.... I put in my pictures everything I like.
Nov 4, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Andy Merrifield
Mr. Debs, My Darling Mr. Debs, My Darling
In offhand, birdsong passing, Marguerite Young observes: "As for the nineteenth century, it may be said that it was probably the leakiest century there ever was and so would rema...
Oct 28, 1999 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
Slouching to the Ouija Board Slouching to the Ouija Board
"Does the imagination dwell the most/Upon a woman won or woman lost?" Yeats asked. For most of his readers and biographers, the answer has been clear: a woman lost.
Oct 28, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Kunkel
Our Monumental Mistakes Our Monumental Mistakes
To the surprise of historians themselves, history--or at least its public presentation--has become big business.
Oct 21, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
How We Ended the Cold War How We Ended the Cold War
It is now ten years since the Berlin wall crumbled, but the question of how and why the cold war was concluded still lingers.
Oct 14, 1999 / Feature / John Tirman
Mourning and America Mourning and America
He's not dead yet, but the spirit of Ronald Reagan is omnipresent these days, and nowhere is it more damnably profane than in politicians' relentless invocations of the Almighty.
Oct 14, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Michael Joseph Gross
Thurow’s Infonomics Thurow’s Infonomics
We are entering, techno-boosters breathlessly proclaim, a "third industrial revolution," that of the "knowledge-based" or "new" economy.
Oct 14, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Robert J. Crawford
More Nixon Tapes Released More Nixon Tapes Released
Among his more peculiar views,
He thought all Communists were Jews.
Historians must ponder how
He managed to account for Mao.
Oct 14, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Calvin Trillin
Remains of the Day Remains of the Day
Every Wednesday since January 1992, an indefatigable group of halmonis (Korean for "grandmothers") in their 70s and 80s have led a rally in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seo...
Oct 7, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Margaret Juhae Lee