‘Nation’ Notes ‘Nation’ Notes
We regret the loss of two valued contributors. Richard Cloward, for forty-seven years a professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work, was author of such influentia...
Aug 23, 2001 / The Editors
Dark Ages Ahead at the NLRB Dark Ages Ahead at the NLRB
Most Americans are probably unaware that "the Dark Ages were not all bad and the Enlightenment not all good." Or that "homosexuality [is] a sin worthy of death." Or that one of...
Aug 23, 2001 / Feature / John Nichols
Catchers in the Wry Catchers in the Wry
Ah, the films of summer. When they get it right, they win our hearts. A sublime treat with which to beat the heat, Ghost World deserves every bit of the praise that has been ro...
Aug 23, 2001 / Books & the Arts / B. Ruby Rich
Chekhov Takes Wing Chekhov Takes Wing
"Stop all printing of my play. I shall never write another one again." So wrote the frustrated young Dr. Chekhov to his publisher the morning after his new play, The Seagull, wa...
Aug 23, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Carol Rocamora
The Sultan’s Brother Does a Service to Humanity The Sultan’s Brother Does a Service to Humanity
The brother of the Sultan of Brunei Set out to see how much a guy could buy, And fifteen billion's what he finally spent Before the sultan voiced some discontent. The guilt o...
Aug 23, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
We Are the World We Are the World
At 5 o'clock in the morning, the radio alarm begins to blare the news. The United States is threatening to pull out of the World Conference Against Racism if the conversati...
Aug 23, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
You Can Use God to Justify Anything You Can Use God to Justify Anything
The country was founded on the idea of keeping religion and politics separate--but you'd hardly know this by the way the idea of the Almighty has intruded itself into political...
Aug 21, 2001 / Column / Robert Scheer
Young Activists Unite Young Activists Unite
Durbin, South Africa, will see the coming together of a large cohort with its own pressing agenda.
Aug 16, 2001 / Feature / Bojana Stoparic