Humiliation With a Smile Humiliation With a Smile
To suffer humiliation can be tragic. To bear humiliation for much longer than necessary, yet with loud impatience, is the comic gift of Albert Brooks.
Sep 2, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Buchanan Breaks Ranks Buchanan Breaks Ranks
In Washington, a city in which (to borrow a phrase from Virginia Woolf) all is gossip, corruption and chatter, the end-of-summer buzz has been about Pat Buchanan and whether he'll ...
Sep 2, 1999 / Editorial / Doug Ireland and Micah L. Sifry
Holbrooke’s Time to Lead Holbrooke’s Time to Lead
In assuming his position at the United Nations, ambassador Richard Holbrooke brings his personal access to power, a sharp intelligence and a capacity, unusual in government, to t...
Sep 2, 1999 / Editorial / The Editors
Weird Science Weird Science
My first thought upon hearing that the Kansas state education board had removed evolution from its mandatory curriculum was: Go ahead! Be like that! Handicap your kids for life.
Sep 2, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The Rest of Them Are Clean The Rest of Them Are Clean
Elizabeth Dole won't break the law. McCain has scored no coke. The thought of Hatch with smack or crack Is palpably baroque.
Sep 2, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Commentary School of Falsification The Commentary School of Falsification
Israeli schoolchildren returned to their desks this year to find a new history curriculum.
Sep 2, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Beyond the Drug War Beyond the Drug War
Most of the media regard the coy refusal of George W.
Sep 2, 1999 / Editorial / The Editors
Burned by Waco Burned by Waco
On July 26 I sat for almost fourteen hours in a hearing room waiting to testify before Congress on the tragedy at Waco, and watched a dismal performance.
Aug 28, 1999 / Editorial / Alan Stone
Living La Vida ‘Loca’ Living La Vida ‘Loca’
Few Latino writers have challenged homophobia and machismo as fiercely as Jaime Manrique.
Aug 19, 1999 / Books & the Arts / George De Stefano