Our Century: The Seventies Our Century: The Seventies
Death of a Soldier
Dec 23, 1999 / Feature / The Editors
Our Century: The Eighties Our Century: The Eighties
Protest and Survive Ihave come to the view that a general nuclear war is not only possible but probable, and that its probability is increasing....
Dec 23, 1999 / Feature / The Editors
Our Century: The Nineties Our Century: The Nineties
The Character of Presidents The President we get is the country we get. With each new President the nation is conformed spiritually.
Dec 23, 1999 / Feature / The Editors
Seattle From the Seine Seattle From the Seine
"Le monde n'est pas une marchandise"--the world is not a commodity--proclaimed the large banner in the Parisian demonstration against the WTO.
Dec 15, 1999 / Daniel Singer
The ‘Single Standard’ in Kosovo The ‘Single Standard’ in Kosovo
Cambridge, Mass.
Dec 15, 1999 / Christopher Hitchens and Noam Chomsky
Joseph Heller Joseph Heller
Nelson Algren's 1961 review of Catch-22 is at www.thenation.com.
Dec 15, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Christopher Hitchens
On the Latest Republican Debate On the Latest Republican Debate
I watched these presidential hopefuls join Together for debating in Des Moines, And many times I heard allegiance sworn To Jesus and to babies not quite born.
Dec 15, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Prattle on Seattle The Prattle on Seattle
The ideological rigidity that governs punditocracy trade debate transcends right/left dichotomies.
Dec 15, 1999 / Column / Eric Alterman
John McCain’s Vietnam John McCain’s Vietnam
Though he suffered as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, he seems blind to the suffering inflicted on that nation by America's brutal and misguided war.
Dec 15, 1999 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss
Was Communism Reformable? Was Communism Reformable?
Never in history until the Soviet Union collapsed eight years ago had a great empire gone through such cataclysmic changes and accepted such staggering territorial losses without...
Dec 15, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Robert V. Daniels