Books & the Arts

The Port Huron Statement at 40 The Port Huron Statement at 40

On its anniversary, two of its authors assess its relevance for today.

Jul 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Tom Hayden and Dick Flacks

The Forgettable & Forgotten The Forgettable & Forgotten

Dispatches from adolescent territory reach me occasionally through my niece Michelle, who has moved into her teen years like the Wehrmacht hitting Belgium. Her most recent posting...

Jul 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Bennett’s Pledge of Allegiance Bennett’s Pledge of Allegiance

 

Jul 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Marcus G. Raskin

Dubyaspeak Dubyaspeak

For readers of this magazine and millions of other Americans, the initial horror of September 11 was compounded by the sobering realization that George W. Bush would be at the hel...

Jul 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Elayne Tobin

Future Shock Future Shock

In Steven Spielberg's latest picture, a skinheaded psychic named Agatha keeps challenging Tom Cruise with the words, "Can you see?" The question answers itself: Cruise sees in ...

Jul 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Poisoned Ivy Poisoned Ivy

Much as I hate to, I'm going to start by talking about the damn money. I'm only doing it because almost everyone else is. It's not just the author profiles and publishing-trad...

Jul 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour

Citizen Jane Citizen Jane

A half-century ago T.H. Marshall, British Labour Party social theorist, offered a progressive, developmental theory for understanding the history of what we have come to call citi...

Jul 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Linda Gordon

Screen Rage Screen Rage

One of the most persistent myths in the culture wars today is that social science has proven "media violence" to cause adverse effects. The debate is over; the evidence is over...

Jul 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Marjorie Heins

1776 and All That 1776 and All That

The country is riven and ailing, with a guns-plus-butter nuttiness in some of its governing echelons and the sort of lapsed logic implicit in the collapse of trust in money-center...

Jul 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Edward Hoagland

Voiding Checkbook Politics Voiding Checkbook Politics

Even as campaign finance reformers celebrated the long-awaited passage of the McCain-Feingold bill this spring, they cautioned the public not to assume the fight for reform was ov...

Jun 27, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jane Manners

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