‘The Truth Will Emerge’
Truth has a way of asserting itself despite all attempts to obscure it. Distortion only serves to derail it for a time.
Print Magazine
June 9, 2003 Issue
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Editorial
An Energy/Jobs Program
America needs jobs, and working families are hurting. At the same time, the war in Iraq has heightened awareness of our dependence on foreign oil and the vulnerability of ou...
Building to Win
These are dog days for Democrats. The top-gun President continues to ride high in the polls, despite the chaos in Iraq.
Column
Forgetting to Laugh
Of all the columns I've written, never have I gotten more mail than for the following sentence: "It will not matter that the Dixie Chicks play to full, cheering houses, whil...
Now, Gods, Stand Up for Fakers!
Thank God for fakers! Matchless as deflaters of human and institutional pretension, they furnish us rich measures of malicious glee at the red-faced victims.
Letters
Feature
Tales of the Texas Border
They're back now, but Texas's few living elected Democrats, who fled to Oklahoma pursued by minions of the law, are said to remain unrepentant. The proximate cause was a red...
Socking It to the States
Sentient observers know that American state and local governments face a historic crisis--that they are cutting vital services and raising taxes, mainly on those already mos...
Books & the Arts
Medium Cool
In the film from which there is no escape and no going back, The Matrix, the writer-director team of Andy and Larry Wachowski presented a grim choice between truth an...
Fight Club
Writing may be fighting, as Ishmael Reed famously opined, but most writers know the difference. There are, of course, some who blur the line.
She’s So Heavy
In 1981 Carolyn Forché published a slim collection of verse, her second, titled The Country Between Us.
Sex and the City
From the mid to the late 1920s, the German painter Christian Schad produced a group of paintings like little else in modern art.
