Commies and the Conservatives Who Love Them Commies and the Conservatives Who Love Them
Remember the term "useful idiots"? Those were the well-meaning leftists who during the cold war couldn't distinguish between the beautiful dream of communism and the mu...
Apr 5, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman
Stones, Glass Houses, Sontag and Said Stones, Glass Houses, Sontag and Said
To put it all in a nutshell, come the month of May Edward Said won't be traveling to Vienna; Susan Sontag will be traveling to Jerusalem. It's a backhanded tribute ...
Apr 5, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Beauty and the Beastly Beauty and the Beastly
Jean Clair, director of the Musée Picasso in Paris and widely respected both as scholar and art critic, has for some years been out of sympathy with contemporary art. Wh...
Apr 5, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Back to the Bay of Pigs Back to the Bay of Pigs
Two senior citizens of the cold war are chatting amiably over small cups of thick, sweet Cuban coffee in a Havana hotel. Bob Reynolds, tall and erect in his mid-70s, made cland...
Apr 5, 2001 / John Dinges
A Fairness Agenda for the Bush Era A Fairness Agenda for the Bush Era
In the clash over tax cuts and social programs, much of what progressives need to do is defensive. But it would be a mistake not to float new ideas, too.
Apr 5, 2001 / Feature /
Beyond McCain-Feingold Beyond McCain-Feingold
The Senate's passage of McCain-Feingold was welcome if only as a comeuppance to the Trent Lotts and Mitch McConnells who had arrogantly defied popular sentiment by keeping the ...
Apr 5, 2001 / The Editors
Preserving the Urban Dynamic Preserving the Urban Dynamic
Cities that say no to new malls and superstores are enjoying regeneration.
Apr 5, 2001 / Feature / Roberta Brandes Gratz
In Fact… In Fact…
HOW THE 'MAESTRO' HAS FALLEN William Greider writes: While it is not exactly news that Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspanhas fallen from his state of infallible grace, t...
Apr 5, 2001 / The Editors
Bristling on the Subcontinent Bristling on the Subcontinent
The conflict in Kargil took place in the summer of 1999. It was the fourth war between India and Pakistan since their emergence as independent nations in 1947, but this was the...
Apr 5, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Amitava Kumar
Publish or Speech Perishes Publish or Speech Perishes
In the words of the old folk song, "When will they ever learn?" David Horowitz, former radical who these days is in the business of promoting (1) neoconservatism and (2) David ...
Apr 5, 2001 / Victor Navasky