Cold Comfort Cold Comfort
They were kidnapped on the street, or summoned to the village square, or lured from home with false promises of work, to be forced into the Japanese military's far-flung, highly ...
May 25, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Happy Mother’s Day Happy Mother’s Day
When we left that old journalistic evergreen, the evils of daycare, two weeks ago, the media hysteria over the NICHD study had just about peaked. The researchers had begun to tur...
May 10, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Literature’s Candida Literature’s Candida
One recent Tuesday, members of the literary old guard gathered at the Church of All Souls on Manhattan's Upper East Side to bid final farewell to one of their secret society and t...
May 10, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Dan Simon
Childcare Scare Childcare Scare
Studies on the effects of childcare on the young are colored by researchers' views about educated women who go to work.
Apr 26, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Analyze This Analyze This
This is not going to be a column blaming Ralph Nader and the Greens for the daily disasters of the Bush Administration, so don't stop reading--yet. That column has been written d...
Apr 12, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt
This Warning May Be Hazardous to Your Health This Warning May Be Hazardous to Your Health
A woman two months pregnant goes to see her Ob-Gyn for prenatal care. As required by law, her doctor informs her that her condition places her at greater risk for a wide range of...
Mar 30, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Letters to the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives Letters to the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives
Honored Infidel, In the near future we plan to expand our faith-based initiative, Holy Terror Sandblasting and Demolition Corp. New York Ci...
Mar 15, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Anti-Catholic? Round Two Anti-Catholic? Round Two
If a critic's clout can be measured by the ability to make an artist's name, the most important art critic in America today is clearly Rudolph Giuliani. Just over a year ago he e...
Mar 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt
Vaginal Politics Vaginal Politics
Imagine Madison Square Garden brimming over with 18,000 laughing and ebullient women of every size, shape, age and color, along with their male friends, ditto. Imagine that in th...
Feb 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt
No Olive Branch No Olive Branch
How many times did we hear during the endless campaign that Bush wouldn't go after abortion if elected? Republicans, Naderites and countless know-it-alls and pundits in between a...
Feb 1, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt