Letters Letters
'YO MAMA' IS A BIGOT New York City Arthur C. Danto contends that Renee Cox's Yo Mama's Last Supper is not anti-Catholic and deserves First Amendment protec...
Jun 21, 2001 / Eric Alterman, Arthur C. Danto, Maria Margaronis, and Our Readers
The Limeys The Limeys
Franky Four Fingers. Bullet Tooth Tony. Boris the Blade. Barry the Baptist. Porno king Hatchet Harry, who coshes his victims with a fifteen-inch black rubber cock. These are just ...
Jun 21, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Carl Bromley
Pentagon Papers Chase Pentagon Papers Chase
"The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg." What a marvelous subject! Does any other person's life express more intensely the contradictions of American experience during the past fi...
Jun 21, 2001 / Books & the Arts / H. Bruce Franklin
Who’ll Defend Against Missile Defense? Who’ll Defend Against Missile Defense?
Stanford, California Arriving to record a television debate at the Hoover Institution here a few months ago, I found the personnel of the preceding show still standing aro...
Jun 21, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
In Fact… In Fact…
FIRST AMENDMENT BEDFELLOWS Every once in a while it behooves this 135-year-old journal (136 on July 5!) to remind ourselves that, like the broken clock that is right twice a day,...
Jun 21, 2001 / The Editors
The Beat The Beat
SENATE SHUFFLE It was a remarkably different Senate that convened following Vermonter Jim Jeffords's switch from Republican to Independent status. The Jeffords jump did more than ...
Jun 21, 2001 / Column / John Nichols
Stopping at a Red Light Stopping at a Red Light
Nancy Chan is a postfeminist icon of sorts. The ultimate lady entrepreneur, Chan--the title character of the popular serial Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl, catalogued ...
Jun 21, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Leah Platt
The Ground Beneath My Feet The Ground Beneath My Feet
In the summer of 1986 I was traveling in Nicaragua, working on the book of reportage that was published six months later as The Jaguar Smile. It was the seventh anniversary of th...
Jun 21, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Salman Rushdie
A Former Fraternity President Deals With the Nuclear Proliferation Issue A Former Fraternity President Deals With the Nuclear Proliferation Issue
Though Bush intends to drop the missile treaty, He's happy that this Putin guy's so neat, he Will prove to be the nicest sort of Roosky. So just relax, and crack yourself a br...
Jun 21, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Liberating Vieques Liberating Vieques
When George W. Bush announced from Sweden on June 14 that he planned to pull the US Navy out of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques by 2003, it struck some as odd when he referred ...
Jun 21, 2001 / Angelo Falcón