Block That Rush! Block That Rush!
I suppose it would be in my financial interest if Rush Limbaugh were to get his wish and become part of the broadcast team for ABC's Monday Night Football.
Jun 1, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Al Franken
Going Postal Going Postal
Bravo and Happy Birthday to Harper's Magazine, and to Lewis Lapham and John (Rick) MacArthur (editor and publisher, respectively).
Jun 1, 2000 / The Editors
Power Crisis Has Mileage for Bush Power Crisis Has Mileage for Bush
The Bush Administration is pulling a fast one on energy, and we will all pay dearly for decades to come. By panicking the public with oil industry propaganda of an energy shortag...
May 29, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
In Our Orbit In Our Orbit
Witness to History The End of the Peace Process:
May 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
The Troves of Academe The Troves of Academe
"A university," poet John Ciardi acidly observed, "is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students." Add this contemporary counterpunch: A college is what a...
May 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Carlin Romano
Harrington’s Dilemma Harrington’s Dilemma
Maurice Isserman's The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington evokes and will enrich the legacy of the last great American socialist in the tradition of Eugene Debs and N...
May 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Tom Hayden
Brands ‘R’ Us? Brands ‘R’ Us?
Jeremy Rifkin wants to rock the world of the jaded reader: He predicts that we're entering a completely new--the final--stage of capitalism.
May 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Jane Slaughter
How We Made the Balkans How We Made the Balkans
When the Pulitzer prizes were announced in April, surprisingly none of the hundreds of journalists covering the war in the Balkans last year were among the winners.
May 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Dusko Doder
When the CIA Was the NEA When the CIA Was the NEA
In June 1948 George Kennan, director of the State Department's policy planning staff, drafted National Security Directive NSC-10/2.
May 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Michael P. Rogin
Author, Author! Author, Author!
"There are more than a million writers in the United States and they write more than 500,000 books each year, 90% of which never see publication.
May 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Art Winslow