On the Release of John McCain’s Psychological Records On the Release of John McCain’s Psychological Records
Still reason to worry.
Dec 9, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Kosovo: On Ends and Means Kosovo: On Ends and Means
The spectacle of human beings acting out mindless violence through pack behavior instills more terror in the heart than perhaps any other event in the natural world.
Dec 9, 1999 / Books & the Arts / George Kenney
Exploding Plastic Inevitable Exploding Plastic Inevitable
The fifties may have been the last great moment when Americans entrusted their dreams of transformation to the material world.
Dec 9, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Joanne Jacobson
‘Rock’ in a Hard Place ‘Rock’ in a Hard Place
Not since Charlton Heston painted the Sistine Chapel has there been so epic a film about arts patronage as Cradle Will Rock. Heston, you will recall, had to cope only with the Va...
Dec 9, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Democracy Bites the WTO Democracy Bites the WTO
Seattle was indeed a milestone for a new kind of politics.
Dec 9, 1999 / The Editors
The Battle Beyond Seattle The Battle Beyond Seattle
A little broken glass in the streets of Seattle has transformed the World Trade Organization into a popular icon for the unregulated globalization that tramples human values on e...
Dec 9, 1999 / William Greider
Back to Beginnings Back to Beginnings
Cheick Oumar Sissoko, who lives and works in Mali, has looked around and noticed that his fellow filmmakers in sub-Saharan Africa are few--"and due to our financial need (great w...
Dec 2, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Algren’s Question Algren’s Question
He would hang his coat neatly over the back of his chair in the leaden station-house twilight, say he was beat from lack of sleep and lay his head across his arms upon the query-...
Dec 2, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Dan Simon