Pursued by Love’s Demons Pursued by Love’s Demons
As if the back streets of our local city might dispense with their pyrrhic accumulation of dust and wineful tonality, offer a reprise of love itself, a careless love rendered g...
May 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Charlie Smith
Rebel With a Cause Rebel With a Cause
The re-education of former World Bank chief economist Joseph Stiglitz.
May 23, 2002 / Feature / Eyal Press
And Another Thing… And Another Thing…
Perhaps there's a limit to female masochism after all. To the great astonishment of the New York Times, which put the story on page one, Creating a Life, Sylvia Ann Hewlett's b...
May 23, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Custom Custom
There is a difference it used to make, seeing three swans in this versus four in that quadrant of sky. I am not imagining. It was very large, as its effects were. Declarations ...
May 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Carl Phillips
McKinney Redux McKinney Redux
During the long months of post-September 11 presidential invincibility, no member of Congress climbed further out on the what-did-Bush-know-when limb than Representative Cynthia M...
May 23, 2002 / John Nichols
The Israel Lobby The Israel Lobby
On May 2 the Senate, in a vote of 94 to 2, and the House, 352 to 21, expressed unqualified support for Israel in its recent military actions against the Palestinians. The resol...
May 23, 2002 / Michael Massing
Malign Neglect Malign Neglect
Children in New York City's public schools are being shortchanged--again.
May 23, 2002 / Feature / Jonathan Kozol
Sleepless in Nightmute Sleepless in Nightmute
You may recall Insomnia as a Norwegian film made on a modest budget--do I repeat myself?--about the inner life of a morally compromised police detective. The picture enjoyed a sma...
May 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Justice Can’t Be Done in Secret Justice Can’t Be Done in Secret
Why public and press have a right to witness military tribunal proceedings.
May 23, 2002 / Feature / Edward J. Klaris
Knowledge (and Power) Knowledge (and Power)
For Senator Clinton to flourish a copy of the New York Post--the paper that has called her pretty much everything from Satanic to Sapphist--merely because it had the pungent headli...
May 23, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens