Spy or Savior? Spy or Savior?
If Russia is not to dissolve like the Soviet Union or, worse yet, end in a cataclysm like Yugoslavia's, it must negotiate peacefully across a welter of emotional claims to self-det...
Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / George Kenney
The Spies Who Fleeced Us The Spies Who Fleeced Us
It's always suspicious when Washingtonians start breaking into bad Latin. There may be a quid, you hear them say, and there seems to be a quo.
Jun 24, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Holocaust Creationism Holocaust Creationism
Between 1945 and 1947 the United States underwent perhaps the most breathtaking ideological transformation in its history.
Jun 24, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
Rolling Thunder: the Rerun Rolling Thunder: the Rerun
People concerned about the US-led NATO war against Yugoslavia find much to reflect upon in the Vietnam experience.
May 27, 1999 / Books & the Arts / George Kenney
Lovestone’s Thin Red Line Lovestone’s Thin Red Line
Jay Lovestone is not only one of the oddest characters in the history of the American left but easily its most slippery.
May 6, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Paul Buhle
The Spies Who Loved Us? The Spies Who Loved Us?
I still kick myself for not having saved the short story I wrote for composition class in seventh grade in which I described how the Russians took over my small suburban communit...
May 6, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Ellen Schrecker
Bioterrorism Hits Home Bioterrorism Hits Home
The high moral tone in Washington and London about "rogue" states, such as Iraq, building arsenals of biological weapons belies a shameful past.
Apr 15, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Peter Pringle
Solzhenitsyn’s History Lesson Solzhenitsyn’s History Lesson
Knowledge of Khrushchev's reaction cited above is personal; he was the author's grandfather.
Apr 15, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Nina Khrushcheva
Holocaust Accounting Holocaust Accounting
The saga of the gold looted by the Nazis and concealed or converted by greedy neutrals is very far from finished.
Feb 25, 1999 / Editorial / Daniel Singer