Fashion Statements Fashion Statements
October is here, and once again it's time for post-season playoffs, foliage and fashion magazines thicker than the Old Testament with seasonal guidance for the young and voguish.
Oct 21, 1999 / Column / Eric Alterman
Thoughts About Kenneth Starr as He Leaves Office Thoughts About Kenneth Starr as He Leaves Office
Some ask, “Is there a more self-righteous man?” Or “Was he really out for Clinton’s blood?” Some citizens are left with only this: “Amazing how…
Oct 21, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Thurow’s Infonomics Thurow’s Infonomics
We are entering, techno-boosters breathlessly proclaim, a "third industrial revolution," that of the "knowledge-based" or "new" economy.
Oct 14, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Robert J. Crawford
Mourning and America Mourning and America
He's not dead yet, but the spirit of Ronald Reagan is omnipresent these days, and nowhere is it more damnably profane than in politicians' relentless invocations of the Almighty.
Oct 14, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Michael Joseph Gross
Buchanan-Fulani: New Team? Buchanan-Fulani: New Team?
When Pat Buchanan showed up to tout his new book on Tim Russert's CNBC show, Russert asked about his recent lunch date with Lenora Fulani, former presidential candidate of the New ...
Oct 14, 1999 / Feature / Bruce Shapiro
How We Ended the Cold War How We Ended the Cold War
It is now ten years since the Berlin wall crumbled, but the question of how and why the cold war was concluded still lingers.
Oct 14, 1999 / Feature / John Tirman
Pakistan: No Way Out Pakistan: No Way Out
For the third time in Pakistan's traumatic history, the army has seized power--this time, apparently, against the advice of the United States. The country is under martial law.
When the People Took the Stage When the People Took the Stage
At the beginning of June 1989, I was sitting in the bar of the Hotel Europejski in Warsaw and reassuring Tadeusz Mazowiecki that his decision to stay on as editor of Solidarity's m...
Oct 14, 1999 / Feature / Daniel Singer
‘Sensation’ in Brooklyn ‘Sensation’ in Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, as if persuaded by its own ill-advised publicity that the art in its "Sensation" show might endanger the welfare of its viewers, at first thought it p...
Oct 14, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Labor’s Labors Labor’s Labors
Marking the fourth year of president John Sweeney's tenure, the 13-million-member AFL-CIO had much to celebrate at its biennial convention in Los Angeles in mid-October.
Oct 14, 1999 / Editorial / The Editors