Into the Muck Into the Muck
That the mainstream media are increasingly conservative and gossip-driven is not exactly news.
Mar 22, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman
Shopping Till We Drop Shopping Till We Drop
During the past two decades, as random financial crises visited various fast-growing economies, we have become familiar, after the fact, with the profile of a developing country ...
Mar 22, 2000 / Feature / William Greider
The ‘Casanova of Causes’ The ‘Casanova of Causes’
To her biographer, Simone de Beauvoir confided a less than rhapsodic one-night stand, in 1946, with the Hungarian malcontent Arthur Koestler: "One night I got so drunk I let him ...
Mar 22, 2000 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
Pigeons Home to Roost Pigeons Home to Roost
Star vehicle?
Mar 22, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Outcome of the Primaries The Outcome of the Primaries
So after the excitement fades, We end up with the norm: Both candidates are regulars Who say they're for reform.
Mar 16, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Honor the Blacklistees Honor the Blacklistees
After last year's brouhaha surrounding the presentation by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of a Lifetime Achievement Award to Elia Kazan, one member of the academ...
Mar 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky
The Beat The Beat
POLLEY-TICS: "If you're not interested in hockey or politics don't bother reading this," begins the latest missive from Canadian-born actress
Mar 16, 2000 / John Nichols
American Beauty or American Pie? American Beauty or American Pie?
*Last year, I was the guest editor of The Nation's first issue devoted exclusively to Hollywood and politics.
Mar 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Peter Biskind
Inside Indiewood Inside Indiewood
The Nation asked seven prominent members of the independent film community, including several filmmakers who released major films this year, to take the temperature of the movem
Mar 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Peter Biskind
Mr. Hoch Goes to Hollywood Mr. Hoch Goes to Hollywood
The film Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop will be released in 2000...we hope.
Mar 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Danny Hoch