A Scientific Observation (Using Some Experts Gail Sheehy Didn’t Know About) on the Speaking Problems That Seem to Run in the Bush Family A Scientific Observation (Using Some Experts Gail Sheehy Didn’t Know About) on the Speaking Problems That Seem to Run in the Bush Family
He thinks that hostile's hostage. He cannot say subliminal. The way Bush treats the language Is bordering on criminal. His daddy had the problem: He used the nounless predicate. Those cowboy boots can do that To people from Connecticut.
Sep 24, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Trulock Is Source of Botched Lee Case Trulock Is Source of Botched Lee Case
In a bad spy flick, there's got to be a character like Notra Trulock, an obsessed sleuth who always gets his man--even if it's the wrong man.
Sep 12, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Selma Is Still Selma Selma Is Still Selma
Selma, Alabama, a touchstone in the civil rights movement, is frozen in a way that confounds onlookers.
Sep 7, 2000 / Amy Bach
A Dream of Californication A Dream of Californication
A genre is dissolving.
Sep 7, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Melvin Jules Bukiet
The Discreet Charm of Hoffa Jr. The Discreet Charm of Hoffa Jr.
Marc Cooper's July 24/31 "Where's Hoffa Driving the Teamsters?" provoked a storm of controversy from Honolulu to Brooklyn.
Sep 7, 2000 / Marc Cooper and Our Readers
Russia’s Environmental Crisis Russia’s Environmental Crisis
NPR's Living On Earth program broadcast a radio version of this story over the weekend of September 1-3, 2000. Research support provided by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Ins...
Sep 7, 2000 / Feature / Mark Hertsgaard
Rock in a Hard Place Rock in a Hard Place
Blessed with a pitch-perfect name for his métier, Lester Bangs wrote on the subject of rock music--writing, for him, being a matter of slamming two nouns together so the...
Sep 7, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Freedom From Religion, ¡Si! Freedom From Religion, ¡Si!
"The Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom from religion," Senator Joseph Lieberman told a rapturous audience at a black church a few Sundays ago, just after...
Sep 7, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt
In the American Grain In the American Grain
After his death in 1975 at the age of 70, Lionel Trilling underwent something of an eclipse.
Sep 7, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans
Iraq: What the Butler Saw Iraq: What the Butler Saw
At the beginning of September, Hans Blix, head of UNMOVIC, the latest UN commission for verifying Iraqi disarmament, poised to report his new team's readiness to go into Iraq.
Sep 7, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Ian Williams