Weird Science Weird Science
My first thought upon hearing that the Kansas state education board had removed evolution from its mandatory curriculum was: Go ahead! Be like that! Handicap your kids for life.
Sep 2, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Buchanan Breaks Ranks Buchanan Breaks Ranks
In Washington, a city in which (to borrow a phrase from Virginia Woolf) all is gossip, corruption and chatter, the end-of-summer buzz has been about Pat Buchanan and whether he'll ...
Sep 2, 1999 / Doug Ireland and Micah L. Sifry
Not for Me Not for Me
I think I'd rather not belong
At this point to the Falun Gong.
The exercises don't look easy,
And doing them might make me queasy
Aug 5, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Political Chapter, Bible Verse Political Chapter, Bible Verse
After writing this, her fourth book on the Christian right, Sara Diamond donated fourteen years' worth of research--right-wing pamphlets, fliers and position papers--to the Unive...
Apr 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Abby Scher
Antichrists Among Us Antichrists Among Us
What could have possessed the Rev. Jerry Falwell to announce that the Antichrist is probably alive and a male Jew?
Jan 28, 1999 / David Wallis
Indiana Jones’s Temple of Doom Indiana Jones’s Temple of Doom
The recent arrest in Israel of eight apocalyptic cult members, who reportedly planned to take their own lives at the millennium or provoke authorities into killing them, rev...
Jan 14, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Bettina Drew
Narnia Born Again Narnia Born Again
For 300 years, Christopher Wren's Sheldonian Theater has been the center of ceremonial life at Oxford.
Jan 14, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Michael Joseph Gross
Immaculate Contraception Immaculate Contraception
Enter the glass doors at 222 West 14th Street in New York City, and the chaos of traffic horns and tire-screeches, jackhammers and concentrated humanity recedes into a hush.
Jan 7, 1999 / Feature / Jennifer Baumgardner
Coup in Algeria Coup in Algeria
CORRECTION: 28 percent of registered voters chose the Islamic Salvation Front. (3/2/92).
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Algeria Slides Into Civil War Algeria Slides Into Civil War
Letter From Europe
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer