The Emigrant The Emigrant
On December 14, the German writer W.G. Sebald died, age 57, in a car accident in England, where he had lived for thirty-five years. He had published four remarkable books: fluid, ...
Mar 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Kunkel
Six Months On, and Counting Six Months On, and Counting
When it comes to the events of September 11, everyone is an expert and no one is.
Mar 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gara LaMarche
Enron, the Media and the New Economy Enron, the Media and the New Economy
The Houston company was part of the biggest "big idea" of the past decade.
Mar 14, 2002 / Feature / Jeff Madrick
Muslim Jerusalem: A Story Muslim Jerusalem: A Story
Kanan Makiya, the Arab world's most ardent and vocal supporter of America's projected intervention in Iraq, the hammer of liberal Arab intelligentsia, the arch anti-Orientalist, h...
Mar 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Turi Munthe
Trade Fights Trade Fights
There aren't many Democratic Congressional candidates who can claim that they personally thwarted the agenda of organized labor in the most critical legislative battles of the pas...
Mar 14, 2002 / John Nichols
God Changes Everything God Changes Everything
Let's say there was a school system or a chain of clinics on whose professional staff were a certain number of men who molested the children in their care and who, whenever this ...
Mar 14, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Letter From Ground Zero: March 14, 2002 Letter From Ground Zero: March 14, 2002
The offspring of the Manhattan Project are circling back toward Manhattan.
Mar 14, 2002 / Jonathan Schell
CalPERS and Carlyle CalPERS and Carlyle
On February 21 the California Public Employees Retirement System stunned financial markets in Asia when it said it would withdraw its $450 million investments in publicly traded c...
Mar 14, 2002 / Feature / Tim Shorrock
Crony Capitalism Goes Global Crony Capitalism Goes Global
Bush Sr. and others open doors for the Carlyle Group.
Mar 14, 2002 / Feature / Tim Shorrock
Billy Graham’s Explanation of His Taped Conversation With Richard Nixon Billy Graham’s Explanation of His Taped Conversation With Richard Nixon
He says that what he said about the Jews (They own and thus manipulate the news) Is not, of course, reflective of his views. So what part of the news did those Jews lose?
Mar 14, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin