Society

Sex & the Clergy Sex & the Clergy

Exit poll results indicating that 22 percent of voters ranked moral values as the most important factor in their support for a presidential candidate have occupied more than thei...

Nov 24, 2004 / Frances Kissling

Falluja’s Health Damage Falluja’s Health Damage

Afif Sarhan, an Iraqi physician and journalist, contributed reporting for this article.

Nov 24, 2004 / Miles Schuman

The Interpreters of Maladies The Interpreters of Maladies

Derrida was often misunderstood, but rarely worse than in his New York Times obituary. Ross Benjamin explains, in a web-only feature.

Nov 24, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Adam Shatz

The Shock of the Old The Shock of the Old

These remarks introduced a centennial tribute to Isaac Bashevis Singer in October at the 92nd Street Y in New York.

Nov 24, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Morris Dickstein

Lost in America Lost in America

In no literature in the world has the immigrant novel been more varied, more original, more persistent than in ours--and this for the most obvious of reasons.

Nov 24, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick

An Appetite for Liebling An Appetite for Liebling

If we had four or five Abbott Joseph Lieblings in Iraq and Washington, it might be a different war, one in which those hugely amiable, observant and amusable souls could bring us...

Nov 24, 2004 / Books & the Arts / David Thomson

Cultivating Opium, Not Democracy Cultivating Opium, Not Democracy

Afghanistan's crop "has spread like wildfire."

Nov 23, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer

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

Southern Ms. Southern Ms.

A gathering of feminists is an occasion to commiserate and to strategize.

Nov 18, 2004 / Feature / Ashley Sayeau

Earthly Rewards for the Christian Voter Earthly Rewards for the Christian Voter

Sitting alone in a classroom at a Catholic all-boys high school this weekend (don't ask), I passed the time by browsing through the health textbooks stacked on the window sill.

Nov 18, 2004 / Column / Katha Pollitt

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