Body Heat Body Heat
After the Kinsey Report but before the first Penthouse Forum, John Updike wrote, "He kneels in a kind of sickness between her spread legs.
Dec 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Mark Lotto
The War That Never Was The War That Never Was
As war threatened Europe in the 1930s, a physicist turned to a psychiatrist to help understand the impending violence.
Dec 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby
Looking Back, Looking Forward Looking Back, Looking Forward
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Dec 2, 2004 / Feature / Various Contributors
Stop Crying, Start Working Stop Crying, Start Working
How long did it take Republicans to write their thank-you note to the Christian right? About five minutes.
Dec 2, 2004 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Politicize the CIA? You’ve Got to Be Kidding! Politicize the CIA? You’ve Got to Be Kidding!
No alien penetration or treachery of double agents has ever done nearly as much damage to the CIA as the infighting consequent upon the arrival of each new director, charged by h...
Dec 2, 2004 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
The Party of Moral Values Displays Its Own in the Case of Majority Leader Tom (The Hammer) DeLay The Party of Moral Values Displays Its Own in the Case of Majority Leader Tom (The Hammer) DeLay
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Dec 2, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Nation Notes Nation Notes
The fourth annual winner of the Puffin/Nation Prize for 2004 is author and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich, a longtime contributor to this magazine, as well as to other periodic...
Dec 2, 2004 / The Editors
Defunct Economists Defunct Economists
Professor Paul Samuelson's Economics: An Introductory Analysis has been the bestselling college economics textbook for more than fifty years.
Dec 2, 2004 / William Greider
The Bush AIDS Machine The Bush AIDS Machine
Click here for info on Kaplan's With God on Their Side: How Christian Fundamentalists Trampled Science, Policy, and Democracy in George W. Bush's White House (New Press).
Dec 2, 2004 / Esther Kaplan
Taking Liberties Taking Liberties
Attorney General John Ashcroft has never been one to hide his anger under a bushel.
Dec 2, 2004 / David Cole