Who’s Utopian Now? Who’s Utopian Now?
Welfare reform has left America dangerously undefended against hard times.
Jan 17, 2002 / Feature / Frances Fox Piven and Barbara Ehrenreich
The Sinking of the USS Enron–A Free-Market Metaphor The Sinking of the USS Enron–A Free-Market Metaphor
The pirate ship has sunk beneath the waves. The swabs who haven't gone to wat'ry graves Row desperately, though all of them now know Their water and their food are running low...
Jan 17, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
A New Current in Palestine A New Current in Palestine
It's too soon to call it a party, but there's now a popular, independent group.
Jan 17, 2002 / Feature / Edward W. Said
Vienna: Waltz or Go-Go? Vienna: Waltz or Go-Go?
Exile is the best school of dialectics. --Bertolt Brecht Peter Gay emigrated from Germany when he was a teenager and work...
Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter
$hotgun Weddings $hotgun Weddings
What would the government have to do to convince you to get married when you otherwise wouldn't? More than pay you $80 a month, I'll bet, the amount Wisconsin's much-ballyhooed "...
Jan 17, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
In Our Orbit In Our Orbit
"Court rise!" begins D.D. Guttenplan's courtroom thriller The Holocaust on Trial. "With the clerk's shout we stop talking and struggle to our feet. David Irving v. Penguin Books ...
Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
The Meaning of Muhammad The Meaning of Muhammad
My first memory of Muhammad Ali is from February 1964 in Miami's funky Fifth Street gym, just after the Beatles had departed from a memorable photo shoot. Ali was still in...
Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jack Newfield
Grief Without Portraits Grief Without Portraits
On December 10, Marc Herold, a professor of economics at the University of New Hampshire, released a report about civilian casualties in Afghanistan. Relying on news accounts fro...
Jan 17, 2002 / Michael Massing
2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize 2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize of $10,000, awarded annually for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States by an American, is administered mutually by th...
Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ann Lauterbach
The Hollywood Three The Hollywood Three
When The Majestic was about to be released--it's the movie, you will recall, in which Jim Carrey plays a blacklisted screenwriter who suffers from amnesia--someone asked me to to...
Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans