…Stinging Like a Bee …Stinging Like a Bee
Anyone with first- or even secondhand knowledge of the real-life subject must have wondered what strain of myopia possessed those producing the 1991 TV miniseries Separate bu...
Jan 7, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour
Rehnquist’s Impeachment Gavel Rehnquist’s Impeachment Gavel
William Rehnquist was Richard Nixon's chief legal strategist when Nixon appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1971.
Dec 24, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Bruce Neuborne
The Other Impeachment The Other Impeachment
Once before in American history, during the turbulent era of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War, a President was impeached by the House and tried before the Senate--Andre...
Dec 17, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
The Gift of Time The Gift of Time
The case for abolition of nuclear weapons.
Feb 2, 1998 / Jonathan Schell
Too Good to Be True Too Good to Be True
This is the rather flattering self-portrait of a populist leader who has already traveled quite far.
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Stalin’s Grandchildren Stalin’s Grandchildren
“At the burial of communism too many people want to jump from the coffin into the funeral procession.”
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Fact or Fiction? Fact or Fiction?
Jacques Attali cannot be too happy with the reason he is hugging the headlines.
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
The Apparatchiks The Apparatchiks
What price is Poland paying for its Stalinist heritage?
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Communism and the Left Communism and the Left
Susan Sontag’s controversial speech at the February 6 event at New York City’s Town Hall event honoring Solidarity, and responses from writers on the left.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature
Three on Poland Three on Poland
In August 1980 the Gdansk shipyard workers astonished the world by winning the right to set up a genuinely independent labor union.
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer