Articles

Freedom Summer Freedom Summer

Despite threats of violence, volunteers from around the world have arrived in the occupied territories for Freedom Summer.

Jul 17, 2003 / Feature / Adam Shapiro

Badlands Badlands

It's always good fun to see a boy wax romantic over the first girl to give him a handjob--and if the boy should be a black-hatted Jew, the fun is only improved.

Jul 17, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Charlotte’s Web Charlotte’s Web

In 1890 the American feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote a remarkable short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," about a woman--genteel, educated, with more than a casual taste f...

Jul 17, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick

Written in Memory Written in Memory

Helen Keller may be the world's most famous supercrip.

Jul 17, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Michael Bérubé

Lady Day Lady Day

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's new book, The Majesty of the Law, appears at a particularly auspicious moment. As the swing vote on and author of Grutter v.

Jul 17, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Herman Schwartz

The Bourgeois Revolutionary The Bourgeois Revolutionary

Publishers, even academic presses, know that the public likes biography and cater to this taste with a stream of handsomely produced, and often quite well-written, volumes.

Jul 17, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Robin Blackburn

…and the Poor Get Poorer …and the Poor Get Poorer

Collateral damage mounts in Bush's ideological war on the welfare state.

Jul 17, 2003 / Feature / Kim Phillips-Fein

Why Israel Must Choose Justice Why Israel Must Choose Justice

Without it, no state can endure as a representative of the Jewish nature.

Jul 17, 2003 / Feature / Arthur Miller

Getting the Blues Getting the Blues

The Administration appears to be bent on teaching liberal states a lesson.

Jul 17, 2003 / Feature / Peter Schrag

Antiwar Students Rock the Vote Antiwar Students Rock the Vote

Once they snubbed "Republicrats"; now they're set to oust Bush by any means.

Jul 17, 2003 / Feature / Liza Featherstone

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