Articles

Godard’s Inferno Godard’s Inferno

Michelangelo and Ulysses came home from the war with knapsacks bulging, bearing the reward for hardships suffered and inflicted. "We promised you the world," the soldiers boasted...

Dec 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

False Promises False Promises

In American Dream, his masterful new book about welfare reform, Jason DeParle brings together two groups of people who rarely seem to meet: welfare policy-makers and welfare reci...

Dec 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Egan

Body Heat Body Heat

After the Kinsey Report but before the first Penthouse Forum, John Updike wrote, "He kneels in a kind of sickness between her spread legs.

Dec 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Mark Lotto

The War That Never Was The War That Never Was

As war threatened Europe in the 1930s, a physicist turned to a psychiatrist to help understand the impending violence.

Dec 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby

Looking Back, Looking Forward Looking Back, Looking Forward

THEDA SKOCPOL

Dec 2, 2004 / Feature / Various Contributors

Stop Crying, Start Working Stop Crying, Start Working

How long did it take Republicans to write their thank-you note to the Christian right? About five minutes.

Dec 2, 2004 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Politicize the CIA? You’ve Got to Be Kidding! Politicize the CIA? You’ve Got to Be Kidding!

No alien penetration or treachery of double agents has ever done nearly as much damage to the CIA as the infighting consequent upon the arrival of each new director, charged by h...

Dec 2, 2004 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

The Party of Moral Values Displays Its Own in the Case of Majority Leader Tom (The Hammer) DeLay The Party of Moral Values Displays Its Own in the Case of Majority Leader Tom (The Hammer) DeLay

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Dec 2, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Nation Notes Nation Notes

The fourth annual winner of the Puffin/Nation Prize for 2004 is author and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich, a longtime contributor to this magazine, as well as to other periodic...

Dec 2, 2004 / The Editors

Defunct Economists Defunct Economists

Professor Paul Samuelson's Economics: An Introductory Analysis has been the bestselling college economics textbook for more than fifty years.

Dec 2, 2004 / William Greider

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