Generation Ex- Generation Ex-
To judge from magazine covers, the American divorce rate is either a disaster for children or no problem at all. First came the famous "Dan Quayle Was Right" article in The Atlan...
Nov 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Andrew J. Cherlin
‘Torture Them’ ‘Torture Them’
Do we want a Vice President who endorses illegal detention and torture of Palestinians? Anthony Cordesman, a national security type frequently deployed as a television pundit, re...
Nov 27, 2000 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
The Real Bush Stands Up The Real Bush Stands Up
It took George W. Bush a matter of days--if not hours--to prove that he doesn't believe his own different-kind-of-Republican rhetoric and that he is leading a squad as loaded wit...
Nov 27, 2000 / The Editors
A Herzog Day for Bananafish A Herzog Day for Bananafish
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Nov 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Jules Feiffer
Butler: Is It All Greek? Butler: Is It All Greek?
Judith Butler, who is a Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, is a troublemaker. She announced as much when sh...
Nov 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Georgette Fleischer
Capitalist Realism Capitalist Realism
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Nov 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Eduardo Galeano
Coming of Age in Venezuela Coming of Age in Venezuela
A few years back, critics of postmodernism, both left and right, chuckled at the academic sting pulled on the journal Social Text when it published Alan Sokal's bogus article on ...
Nov 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Greg Grandin
In Fact… In Fact…
THE BUCHANAN FACTOR John Cavanagh of the Institute for Policy Studies posits that Pat Buchanan undermined Bush's election hopes more than Ralph Nader did Gore's. Although Buchan...
Nov 27, 2000 / The Editors
Riding the Third Wave Riding the Third Wave
I have been waiting for Manifesta to come out. I had certain hopes for this book. In particular, I was looking forward to using it as a corrective addition in a course I'm teachi...
Nov 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Michelle Jensen
Fractured Franchise Fractured Franchise
There's been a lot of talk in recent days about "disfranchisement." Jesse Jackson has invoked memories of the bloody battles for voter registration in Selma; elderly Jews in Palm...
Nov 27, 2000 / Alex Keyssar