Articles

Yes, Treatment, But… Yes, Treatment, But…

Follow these links for the other articles in this forum: the original article by Michael Massing, and reponses by Peter Kornbluh andMike Gray--and Massing's concluding thoughts.

Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Elliott Currie

Perils of Prohibition Perils of Prohibition

Follow these links for the other articles in this forum: the original article by Michael Massing, and reponses by Peter Kornbluh and Elliott Currie--and Massing's concluding though...

Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Mike Gray

Life of a Scandal Life of a Scandal

In mid-October 1996, two months after the publication of Gary Webb's series "Dark Alliance" in the San Jose Mercury News, an extraordinary town meeting took place in Compton, Cal...

Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Peter Kornbluh

It’s Time for Realism It’s Time for Realism

Follow these links for the other articles in this forum: reponses by Peter Kornbluh, Mike Gray and Elliott Currie--and Massing's concluding thoughts.

Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Michael Massing

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 / 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 / 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

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