Thomas Speaks! Thomas Speaks!
Back during the presidential campaign, George W. Bush called Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia his favorite Supreme Court Justices--a remark widely interpreted at the time as ...
Feb 23, 2001 / Bruce Shapiro
Salter’s Flight Path Salter’s Flight Path
We have many male authors known for loving women, fewer known for loving men. Love that is not overtly homoerotic--resolutely heterosexual, in fact--can take on an intimacy and pu...
Feb 23, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Eric Weinberger
Unreality Television Unreality Television
The network honchos called by Louisiana Representative Billy Tauzin and the House Energy and Commerce Committee to testify on the election night debacle were a decidedly un...
Feb 23, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman
Race: the Continental Divide Race: the Continental Divide
The first moments of a recent documentary about Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Rebels With a Cause, recall one of the signal images of the 1960s civil rights struggle: p...
Feb 23, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Stanley Aronowitz
Hate Versus Death Hate Versus Death
Almost every week, it seems, we get to read about some state execution, performed or imminent, wreathed in the usual toxic fog of race or sex prejudice, or incompetency of ...
Feb 23, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Murdoch’s Fox News Murdoch’s Fox News
They distort. They decide.
Feb 23, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Daphne Eviatar
A Noodler’s Chicken Soup A Noodler’s Chicken Soup
On self-help books.
Feb 23, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Julia M. Klein
Liberation Musicology Liberation Musicology
The recording industry has been celebrating the supposed defeat of Napster. The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has affirmed the grant of a preliminary injunction th...
Feb 23, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Eben Moglen
Defining Adequacy Up Defining Adequacy Up
Failing public schools violate state constitutions, new court decisions say.
Feb 23, 2001 / Feature / Peter Schrag
The Pro-choice PR Problem The Pro-choice PR Problem
Young women, who've never lacked abortion rights, are tough to mobilize.
Feb 15, 2001 / Feature / Jennifer Baumgardner