Voiding Checkbook Politics Voiding Checkbook Politics
Even as campaign finance reformers celebrated the long-awaited passage of the McCain-Feingold bill this spring, they cautioned the public not to assume the fight for reform was ov...
Jun 27, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jane Manners
Riders on the Storm Riders on the Storm
Dread ripples through me as I listen to a phone message from our manager saying that we (The Doors) have another offer of huge amounts of money if we would just allow one of our s...
Jun 20, 2002 / Books & the Arts / John Densmore
Islam’s Divided Crescent Islam’s Divided Crescent
On September 23, 2001, midpoint between the horrific events of September 11 and the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, the New York Times ran an intriguing headline. "Forget the...
Jun 20, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Anthony Arnove
Jefferson’s Patsy? Jefferson’s Patsy?
No one has contributed more to the United States than James Madison. He was the principal architect of the Constitution, the brilliant theorist who, more than any other single ind...
Jun 20, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Carl T. Bogus
DYNASTIES! DYNASTIES!
How their wealth and power threaten democracy
Jun 20, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Kevin Phillips
Company Men Company Men
Although car chases are formulaic, they needn't be standard issue. One of the many substantial pleasures that The Bourne Identity offers is a thoughtful car chase, a loving car ch...
Jun 20, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Too Much Monkey Business Too Much Monkey Business
I received the news of paleontologist and popular science writer Stephen Jay Gould's death, at age 60, in the week I was reading Jonathan Marks's new book on genetics, human evolu...
Jun 20, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Micaela di Leonardo
Ripped, Mixed-Up and Burned Ripped, Mixed-Up and Burned
On May 14, 2002, the first wave of Internet file-sharing died.
Jun 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Daphne G. Carr
A Word to Graduates: Organize! A Word to Graduates: Organize!
It's boring but do it, says the playwright. Otherwise, you allow evil to settle in.
Jun 13, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Tony Kushner
A Whole Earth Catalogue A Whole Earth Catalogue
In the United States a deeply rooted bias toward the practical renders all knowledge, even the most sublime forms of wisdom, merely an instrumental good. This pragmatic streak ten...
Jun 13, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eric Zencey