Books & the Arts

The Commerce of Commemoration The Commerce of Commemoration

Andrew Rice covered commercial real estate development for the New York Observer from 2000 until 2002.

Jan 13, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Rice

Music for Change Music for Change

Springsteen's got it right: No retreat.

Jan 13, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Jenny Toomey and Rob Rosenthal

Pundit Limbo: How Low Can They Go? Pundit Limbo: How Low Can They Go?

What do Robert Novak and Armstrong Williams have to do before they're completely discredited?

Jan 13, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

Geezerstock Geezerstock

When I was a kid--this was before television--the radio was my best friend.

Jan 13, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Paul Krassner

The Inflation of the Attorney-General The Inflation of the Attorney-General

This essay, from the October 1, 1874, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on t...

Jan 12, 2005 / Books & the Arts / The Nation

Before Night Falls Before Night Falls

The Chilean coup of 1973 was carried out with a Lone Ranger comic book, a bicycle and several cans of condensed milk.

Jan 6, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Infinite Jest Infinite Jest

This past March, on the closing day of an international literary conference held in Krakow, Poland, an elderly woman stood up before hundreds of scholars and admirers gathered to...

Jan 6, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Paloff

And Justice for All And Justice for All

Affirmative action, in theory, is a matter of distributive justice, which is why liberals and progressives tend to look benevolently on it while conservatives and libertarians co...

Jan 6, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Michael Bérubé

Assigning Responsibility Assigning Responsibility

Defending Rumsfeld, Bush says Rummy's great, That as a planner he has been first rate-- Respected in the White House and the ranks.

Jan 6, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Calvin Trillin

The Hero Within The Hero Within

If many strangers die all at once, as in the tragedy of the tsunami or the Rwanda massacre or a war like the one in Iraq, it is a moral problem, to be dealt with through politics...

Jan 6, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Earl Shorris

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