Salter’s Flight Path Salter’s Flight Path
We have many male authors known for loving women, fewer known for loving men. Love that is not overtly homoerotic--resolutely heterosexual, in fact--can take on an intimacy and pu...
Feb 23, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Eric Weinberger
A Democratic Lullaby to Bill Clinton A Democratic Lullaby to Bill Clinton
As Bush finds backs to pat and hands to shake, The Democrats can't seem to buy a break. The opposition doesn't coalesce, Because the spotlight's on the Clinton mess, A ...
Feb 23, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Thomas Speaks! Thomas Speaks!
Back during the presidential campaign, George W. Bush called Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia his favorite Supreme Court Justices--a remark widely interpreted at the time as ...
Feb 23, 2001 / Bruce Shapiro
Defining Adequacy Up Defining Adequacy Up
Failing public schools violate state constitutions, new court decisions say.
Feb 23, 2001 / Feature / Peter Schrag
Liberation Musicology Liberation Musicology
The recording industry has been celebrating the supposed defeat of Napster. The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has affirmed the grant of a preliminary injunction th...
Feb 23, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Eben Moglen
Little Elegy in G Minor Little Elegy in G Minor
A box of Chopin nocturnes handed down from the other side of my mother's death-- evening gowns in trash bags making a little Golgotha of their own right in the corner of that stud...
Feb 23, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Timothy Liu
A Noodler’s Chicken Soup A Noodler’s Chicken Soup
On self-help books.
Feb 23, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Julia M. Klein
Bush’s Nuclear Revival Bush’s Nuclear Revival
George W. Bush's mid-February directive ordering the Pentagon to review and restructure the US nuclear arsenal is a wake-up call for supporters of arms control and disarmament....
Feb 23, 2001 / William D. Hartung
Nader and the Politics of Fear Nader and the Politics of Fear
He and the Greens are both a problem and a possible asset for the Democrats.
Feb 23, 2001 / Feature / William Greider
Murdoch’s Fox News Murdoch’s Fox News
They distort. They decide.
Feb 23, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Daphne Eviatar