What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
Secret societies are manna for conspiracy theorists, and few are more secret or more conspiracy-nourishing than Yale's Skull and Bones.
Dec 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Doug Henwood
Kissinger? Kissinger? Kissinger? Kissinger?
If President Bush had set out to undermine the credibility of the commission charged with probing the intelligence and security flaws that allowed the September 11, 2001, terroris...
Nov 28, 2002 / John Nichols
Kissinger’s Back…As 9/11 Truth-Seeker Kissinger’s Back…As 9/11 Truth-Seeker
Asking Henry Kissinger to investigate government malfeasance or nonfeasance is akin to asking Slobodan Milosevic to investigate war crimes. Pretty damn akin...
Nov 27, 2002 / David Corn
The Call of the Junco Bird The Call of the Junco Bird
An English woman I've never met calls to read me her new poem about the little Texas junco bird whose cry sounded to the early settlers
Nov 26, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Edward Hirsch
Wheeling My Father Through the Alzheimer’s Ward Wheeling My Father Through the Alzheimer’s Ward
Here where everyone forgets everything, including where they are or what they are fighting to remember,
Nov 26, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Edward Hirsch
Blowin’ in a New Wind Blowin’ in a New Wind
Ani DiFranco
Nov 26, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
Rethinking the Movement Rethinking the Movement
As any casual observer of mega-bookstore shelves knows, the history of the modern civil rights movement is a well-studied field.
Nov 26, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eric Arnesen
‘Obscure as That Heaven of the Jews’ ‘Obscure as That Heaven of the Jews’
In the rabbi's parable a lame one climbs Onto a blind one's shoulders and together They take the fruit of the garden of the Lord.
Nov 26, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Robert Pinsky
The New Apartheid The New Apartheid
Ashwin Desai's "We Are the Poors" is one of the best books yet on globalization and resistance.
Nov 26, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Naomi Klein
Letter From Chile Letter From Chile
Neoliberalism has produced an eco-crisis.
Nov 26, 2002 / Feature / Jimmy Langman