Infinite Jest Infinite Jest
This past March, on the closing day of an international literary conference held in Krakow, Poland, an elderly woman stood up before hundreds of scholars and admirers gathered to...
Jan 6, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Paloff
And Justice for All And Justice for All
Affirmative action, in theory, is a matter of distributive justice, which is why liberals and progressives tend to look benevolently on it while conservatives and libertarians co...
Jan 6, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Michael Bérubé
Kicking the Grant Habit Kicking the Grant Habit
Hello. My name is Michael and I'm a grantaholic.
Jan 6, 2005 / Feature / Michael H. Shuman
Profits for Justice Profits for Justice
It's time to pay for the revolution ourselves.
Jan 6, 2005 / Feature / Michael H. Shuman and Merrian Fuller
Bittersweet Bomblets Bittersweet Bomblets
I was listening to Morning Edition on December 30, and up came one of those end-of-the-year heart-warmers that's supposed to make you feel there's hope for this old world yet.
Jan 6, 2005 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The Pen of Swift, the Brush of Bosch… as Usual The Pen of Swift, the Brush of Bosch… as Usual
The new year promises a rich manure of hypocrisy and bad faith.
Jan 6, 2005 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Assigning Responsibility Assigning Responsibility
Defending Rumsfeld, Bush says Rummy's great, That as a planner he has been first rate-- Respected in the White House and the ranks.
Jan 6, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Calvin Trillin
The Hero Within The Hero Within
If many strangers die all at once, as in the tragedy of the tsunami or the Rwanda massacre or a war like the one in Iraq, it is a moral problem, to be dealt with through politics...
Jan 6, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Earl Shorris
An Appropriate Objection An Appropriate Objection
American elections never play out perfectly.
Jan 6, 2005 / Editorial / John Nichols
Tsunami & US Priorities Tsunami & US Priorities
As the death toll from the tsunami disaster continued to grow, the Bush Administration scrambled to answer widespread criticism that it responded too slowly and with too little a...
Jan 6, 2005 / Editorial / The Editors