No Rush to Judges No Rush to Judges
President Bush's first list of nominees to the US Circuit Courts of Appeal, unveiled on May 8, was deceptively conciliatory and seeded with hard-to-oppose minorities and women, st...
May 17, 2001 / The Editors
Villaraigosa’s Hot in Los Angeles Villaraigosa’s Hot in Los Angeles
His mayoral campaign platform is the most progressive in modern city history.
May 17, 2001 / Feature / Marc Cooper
What Sontag Said in Jerusalem What Sontag Said in Jerusalem
Susan Sontag went to Israel and picked up her Jerusalem Prize on May 9. Ori Nir reported in Haaretz the following day that after accepting the prize from Jerusalem's mayor, Ehud ...
May 17, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Beauty and Sadness Beauty and Sadness
A tidal wave is coming. Soon I am sure. It will sweep all of us away. --The opening lines of Eureka One of the more familiar works of Japane...
May 17, 2001 / Books & the Arts / John Anderson
Sites for Sore Eyes Sites for Sore Eyes
This magazine has been inundated of late with missives from irate Naderites demanding that the editors immediately exile me to The New Republic, the DLC or worse. My last column ...
May 17, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman
Straights Can Change, Too Straights Can Change, Too
The recent New York Times front-page headline "Scientists Say Gay Change Is Possible" left me somewhat bemused.
May 17, 2001 / Richard Kim
Letters Letters
A VICTIM OF THE WAR ON DRUGS Yucaipa, Calif. Your editorial on "The Worst Drug Laws" [April 9] was excellent. It's long past time to reverse the damage done ...
May 10, 2001 / Our Readers
Indecent Proposals Indecent Proposals
When the guy I'm seeing, Dan, invited me to the Wayne Wang film The Center of the World I felt sure it would lead to a hot night. The movie poster featured a stripper licking a lo...
May 10, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Amy Sohn
Literature’s Candida Literature’s Candida
One recent Tuesday, members of the literary old guard gathered at the Church of All Souls on Manhattan's Upper East Side to bid final farewell to one of their secret society and t...
May 10, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Dan Simon
Happy Mother’s Day Happy Mother’s Day
When we left that old journalistic evergreen, the evils of daycare, two weeks ago, the media hysteria over the NICHD study had just about peaked. The researchers had begun to tur...
May 10, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt