LA Story: Backlash of the Boosters LA Story: Backlash of the Boosters
What happens to a leading Marxist writer after he gets a MacArthur genius grant, a Getty Fellowship, and his new book hits number one on the nonfiction bestseller list?
Feb 4, 1999 / Feature / Jon Wiener
Going for the Gunmakers Going for the Gunmakers
A short walk from my home in New Haven stands the farm of that prototypical Connecticut Yankee, Eli Whitney. In 1798 Whitney hit on a bold new scheme: interchangeable parts for...
Feb 4, 1999 / Editorial / Bruce Shapiro
On Olympic Bribery On Olympic Bribery
'Twas said the honest folks of Salt Lake City Deplored sins large and even itty-bitty. But, trying for the Games, they thought it pretty
Jan 28, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
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 / Editorial / David Wallis
A Cold War Over the Cold War? A Cold War Over the Cold War?
Yale University Press's Annals of Communism series, begun in 1995, is among the most ambitious and influential scholarly undertakings to address the historical role of Communi...
Jan 28, 1999 / Column / Eric Alterman
A Bend in the Color Line A Bend in the Color Line
Policy talk about a racialized "underclass" rests on social science research that often reproduces notions of racial difference, in an enormous tautology.
Jan 28, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Gerard Fergerson
Friends, Romans, Countrymen Friends, Romans, Countrymen
The networks are busy interviewing everyone with a law degree about what to expect from the impeachment trial of President Clinton.
Jan 21, 1999 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Justice Over-Decorated Is Justice Denied Justice Over-Decorated Is Justice Denied
Chief Justice Rehnquist now presides. He rules the chamber that decides If Clinton should remain or go. This role's important, that we know.
Jan 21, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Media Starvation Diet Media Starvation Diet
All during the year 1984, those of us with firsthand experience in Africa knew that drought and famine were cutting across vast swaths of the continent.
Jan 21, 1999 / Books & the Arts / James North
The People vs. Larry Flynt? The People vs. Larry Flynt?
I didn't realize how much I was counting on Larry Flynt until I noticed I had spent Monday evening trying to find on the Web or TV a report of the much-anticipated news conf...
Jan 14, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt