Articles

Body Count in Kosovo Body Count in Kosovo

Over the past two years, it has become commonplace to read that the casualties among Kosovo Albanians were not sufficiently high to warrant the NATO intervention that put an end-...

May 25, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

The Professor of Desire The Professor of Desire

When Philip Roth compiles lists of the writers he most admires, Tolstoy never seems to make it. There's Flaubert, Kafka, Bellow--the touchstones. Gogol, Dostoyevsky, Célin...

May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Keith Gessen

Wollstonecraft to Lady Di Wollstonecraft to Lady Di

Here we go, starting on what promises to be a pleasantly engrossing tour of the landmarks of three centuries of Anglo-American intellectual feminism, guided by a seriously impressi...

May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Deirdre English

Bush’s New Gas Guzzler Bush’s New Gas Guzzler

George W. Bush's energy plan fudges the facts, raises false alarms, shamelessly peddles halfhearted green measures--all to provide a cover under which to slide the oil industry's ...

May 25, 2001 / The Editors

Prole Like Me Prole Like Me

About every thirty years for the last one hundred, a crusading journalist somewhere has gotten the same idea: Abandon the middle-class literary life (for a brief period), get a re...

May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Steve Early

Nigeria, Two Years On Nigeria, Two Years On

"Democracy without dividends." That's the phrase you're likely to hear from many Nigerians asked to assess the country's democratic experience under President Olusegun Obasanjo. T...

May 25, 2001 / Sunday Dare

The Jeffords Jump The Jeffords Jump

"What do we do now?" That famous last line of the 1972 film The Candidate, in which Robert Redford finds himself--to his surprise--elected to the Senate, should be on the minds of...

May 25, 2001 / David Corn

Writers Wilt, SAG Sags Writers Wilt, SAG Sags

For the first few months of this year, it looked like Hollywood's unionized writers and actors were about to premiere a new labor strategy. As their conglomerate employers raked i...

May 25, 2001 / Marc Cooper

The Gift Outright The Gift Outright

Readers of this magazine do not need reminders of the costs of the cold war. The mountains of corpses, the damaged lives, divided families and displaced refugees, the secret poli...

May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Casey Nelson Blake

Pacifica Management’s Lies and Misrepresentations Pacifica Management’s Lies and Misrepresentations

A Reply to 'Pacifica Myths and Realities' May 23, 2001

May 24, 2001 / Lyn Gerry

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