Time To Stop Tinkering With the Machinery of Death
When Anthony looked at the calendar, he could see that he had only two days to live. Where must your thoughts run when you taste your own death in your mouth?
Print Magazine
May 15, 2000 Issue
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Editorial
The Beat
County Fairs and Fairness Vermont's passage of "civil union" legislation, which provides gay and lesbian couples most rights...
Elián Sí, Cold War No
It will be a long time before we forget the picture flashed around the world of Elián González being rescued at gunpoint.
Column
Dr. Laura, Be Quiet!
Dr. Laura Schlessinger has said a lot of hurtful and irresponsible things on the radio during her many years as a right-wing religious "therapist" and yenta.
Letters
Feature
Hip-Hop Politics on Campus
"You have no idea how much love I got for this," says David Jamil Muhammad, referring to his role as a student organizer of "Hip-Hop Generation--Hip-Hop as a Movement." The co...
Books & the Arts
On Tyson vs. Downey
I was watching Mike Tyson knock Robert Downey Jr. to the floor when the thought popped into my head, "Is this what I want from a movie?" It was a pressing question.
The Intervention Blues
Perhaps one of the most fatuous theories ever promulgated was Francis Fukuyama's "End of History," put forth just as, in most parts of the world, history resumed its sanguinar...
Lost in Amazonia
After a century of repressing or deriding Woman as a symbol of beauty, high culture in the West has suddenly gone over.
Hip-Hop Politics on Campus
"You have no idea how much love I got for this," says David Jamil Muhammad, referring to his role as a student organizer of "Hip-Hop Generation--Hip-Hop as a Movement." The co...
