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Bland Art in Every Pot Bland Art in Every Pot

In 1989, after several years of controversy, legal wrangling and numerous public forums, Richard Serra's sculptural installation Tilted Arc was removed from a federal plaza in Ne...

Nov 11, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Grant

A Shark in the Mind of One Contemplating Wilderness A Shark in the Mind of One Contemplating Wilderness

A shark swims past me in a kelp forest that sways back and forth with the current. It is deliberate and focused.

Nov 11, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Terry Tempest Williams

Fighting the Art Bullies Fighting the Art Bullies

New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has created enormous consternation and publicity in his attempts to censor an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

Nov 11, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Tony Kushner

Microsoft’s Fatal Error Microsoft’s Fatal Error

Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's factual findings in United States v. Microsoft, released November 5, spell the doom of Microsoft as we have known it.

Nov 11, 1999 / Eben Moglen

Innocents Abroad Innocents Abroad

When people label a film "great," the usual effect is to close off a discussion that ought to be opening.

Nov 11, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

The Effect on His Campaign of the Release of George W. Bush’s College Transcript The Effect on His Campaign of the Release of George W. Bush’s College Transcript

Obliviously on he sails, With marks not quite as good as Quayle's.

Nov 11, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

A Son’s Own Story A Son’s Own Story

If you are looking for a piece of new evidence that will finally vindicate or convict Alger Hiss with certainty, you won't find it in Tony Hiss's poignant father-son memoir, A Vi...

Nov 4, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Jack Gelber

A Dialectical Humanism A Dialectical Humanism

To my distress and perhaps to my delight, I order things in accordance with my passions.... I put in my pictures everything I like.

Nov 4, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Andy Merrifield

The ‘Right’ Books and Big Ideas The ‘Right’ Books and Big Ideas

Abigail Thernstrom, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and her husband, Harvard professor Stephan Thernstrom, would like to thank the John M.

Nov 4, 1999 / Feature / Eric Alterman

Buchanan Inc. Buchanan Inc.

Research assistance for this article was provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute.

Nov 4, 1999 / Feature / Monte Paulsen

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