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
Playing Catch-Up With the Evangelicals Playing Catch-Up With the Evangelicals
Playing Catch-Up With the Evangelicals A speech by Rev. David Dyson: December 2, 2004 The evangelical movement so widely reported on after November 2nd is not the monolithic m...
Jan 6, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Afghan Poppies Bloom Afghan Poppies Bloom
The war-ravaged, opium-dependent country lives in fear of a new drug war.
Jan 6, 2005 / Feature / Christian Parenti
Kicking the Grant Habit Kicking the Grant Habit
Hello. My name is Michael and I'm a grantaholic.
Jan 6, 2005 / Feature / Michael H. Shuman
Profits for Justice Profits for Justice
It's time to pay for the revolution ourselves.
Jan 6, 2005 / Feature / Michael H. Shuman and Merrian Fuller
Bittersweet Bomblets Bittersweet Bomblets
I was listening to Morning Edition on December 30, and up came one of those end-of-the-year heart-warmers that's supposed to make you feel there's hope for this old world yet.
Jan 6, 2005 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The Pen of Swift, the Brush of Bosch… as Usual The Pen of Swift, the Brush of Bosch… as Usual
The new year promises a rich manure of hypocrisy and bad faith.
Jan 6, 2005 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Passings Passings
At the close of the old year this magazine lost three contributors, all distinguished and influential public intellectuals who brought passion and erudition to the search for a b...
Jan 6, 2005 / The Editors