So, Is It Back to Bowling Alone? So, Is It Back to Bowling Alone?
The scene with which The Good Citizen opens could have been lifted straight from a Norman Rockwell painting.
Feb 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / David Kirp
Nonsilence = Death, Too? Nonsilence = Death, Too?
In seven novels and a collection of essays published since 1981, Sarah Schulman has methodically chronicled the history of her longtime neighborhood, Manhattan's East Village.
Feb 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Mark J. Huisman
Affirmative Racism Affirmative Racism
Students across the country are gearing up to defend affirmative action on a national day of protest on February 24.
Feb 18, 1999 / Laura Flanders
Hillary for Veep? Hillary for Veep?
It is, depending on one's perspective, a delicious and redemptive scenario, a terrible nightmare or, if you are the escapist sort that hasn't yet cottoned to the hard reality of...
Feb 18, 1999 / Elaine Lafferty
Room With a View Room With a View
A man locks his daughters in a one-room house for their first twelve years. The girls--twins--don't attend school; they don't play with other kids. They're never even given a ba...
Feb 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
When Cops Are Killers When Cops Are Killers
"Justice for Amadou Diallo!" has been the rallying cry throughout New York since four police officers gunned down the unarmed West African immigrant as he stood outside his apartme...
Feb 18, 1999 / Angela Ards
Footnote to History Footnote to History
From Blumenthal and Hitchens having lunch, A sideshow has emerged that causes spec- Ulation touching ethics and such things:
Feb 11, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Minority Report Minority Report
On February 26 last, my old friend Sidney Blumenthal emerged from the grand jury and made a bravura appearance on the courthouse steps in Washington, DC.
Feb 11, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Policing Cyberspace Policing Cyberspace
Free speech, Oliver Wendell Holmes famously declared, ought not to extend to falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater. But what are the limits on shouting across the wide-open...
Feb 11, 1999 / The Editors
No Exit No Exit
The week started with bipartisan babble about the need for an exit strategy.
Feb 11, 1999 / The Editors