Stanton’s Wisdom Stanton’s Wisdom
One afternoon in January 1892, in a packed convention hall in Washington, DC, the 76-year-old Elizabeth Cady Stanton rose from her seat to address the annual meeting of the Natio...
Dec 22, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick
The War That Never Was The War That Never Was
As war threatened Europe in the 1930s, a physicist turned to a psychiatrist to help understand the impending violence.
Dec 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby
Days of Rage Days of Rage
On November 4, 1979, a few months after the collapse of the Iranian monarchy and the inauguration of Iran's Islamic Republic, a group of college students calling themselves the M...
Nov 24, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Reza Aslan
Patriot Acts Patriot Acts
In September 1950, four months into the Korean War, Congress passed the draconian Internal Security Act (ISA), known as the McCarran Act, after its sponsor, the Nevada Democratic...
Nov 24, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Mike Marqusee
Suspension of Disbelief Suspension of Disbelief
Ask Americans to enumerate their civil liberties and they instinctively turn to freedom of speech and the press.
Nov 18, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
Masters of Their Universe Masters of Their Universe
Beginning in the fifteenth century, Africa, Europe and the Americas came together in the Atlantic to create new economies, new cultures and new societies.
Nov 11, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Ira Berlin
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
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
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