Kosovars and Palestinians Kosovars and Palestinians
Many Jews have, understandably, seen parallels between the tragic events in Kosovo and their experiences of the Holocaust. But in fact, it is not a good parallel.
May 20, 1999 / Ghada Karmi
Smart Bombs Smart Bombs
There was quite an astonishing little item in the paper recently about the sort of thing that makes me glad I grew up in the inner city: i.e., the national proliferation of "assa...
May 20, 1999 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
No Sweat No Sweat
The bucolic, palm-studded campus of Stanford bears no resemblance to the old and gritty auto workers' summer camp at Port Huron, Michigan, where SDS was formed in 1962.
May 20, 1999 / Feature / Marc Cooper
CCA, the Sequel CCA, the Sequel
James Neal is a short, muscular man with close-cropped hair who has spent the past twelve years behind bars for armed robbery.
May 20, 1999 / Feature / Eric Bates
Of Time and the Artist Of Time and the Artist
One afternoon in 1985, I rode in a taxi down Broadway with the physicist I.I. Rabi, discussing time and age.
May 20, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Monthly Review at 50 Monthly Review at 50
Monthly Review celebrated its semicentennial on May 7 with a Manhattan bash featuring loyalists Ossie Davis, Adrienne Rich and Cornel West, and a special retrospective May issue ...
May 20, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Paul Buhle
Episode I–The Phantom Menace Episode I–The Phantom Menace
Not only now but every week, I am reminded at two-minute intervals of the influence of Star Wars.
May 20, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Protest the War Protest the War
It's time to move from dissent to action: to quickly and vigorously protest the Kosovo war.
May 13, 1999 / The Editors
The United States Makes a Conditional Apology to China The United States Makes a Conditional Apology to China
A pity that our missiles went astray-- The kind of act we'd make a tort of. Sincerely, USA would like to say We're really very sorry, sort of.
May 13, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Showdown in Moscow Showdown in Moscow
By dismissing Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov and warning that Russia may pull out of the Yugoslav peace talks, Boris Yeltsin has shown again that he will do almost anything to ...
May 13, 1999 / The Editors