The Impermanent Revolution The Impermanent Revolution
Isaac Deutscher stands out among the early intellectual mentors of the New Left as the only one who expounded classical Marxism. On a mid-1960s "must read" authors list that in...
Feb 24, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Ronald Aronson
Jewtopia Jewtopia
Yiddish, a national language that never had a nation-state, may no longer have millions of speakers, but it remains contested territory nonetheless.
Feb 24, 2005 / Books & the Arts / J. Hoberman
Stankonia Stankonia
Fifty years ago, a young Polish journalist named Leopold Tyrmand lost his job at the country's last surviving independent publication, the Catholic weekly Tygodnik Powszechny, ...
Feb 24, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Brian Morton
Problems with Gannongate? Problems with Gannongate?
The emails keep pouring in with this plea: Investigate Gannongate! These messages are obviously part of a campaign among liberal Internet activists who beli...
Feb 24, 2005 / David Corn
The Pajama Game The Pajama Game
It's hard to know who to root against in the bloggers vs. CNN controversy that led to the resignation of CNN's Eason Jordan, a twenty-three-year veteran of the network.
Feb 24, 2005 / Column / Eric Alterman
Playing by the Numbers Playing by the Numbers
My friend L., a magistrate in Britain, is appalled by American-style sentencing, which has taken hold there recently.
Feb 24, 2005 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
When Liberals Collide When Liberals Collide
The Los Angeles mayoral race raises difficult questions for progressives.
Feb 24, 2005 / Feature / Marc Cooper
Dirty Politics, Foul Air Dirty Politics, Foul Air
At Pittsburgh's Jefferson Elementary School, which overlooks the dark gray plumes from two electric power plants, there are so many children with asthma the school nurse alphabet...
Feb 24, 2005 / Rebecca Clarren
Gorbachev’s Lost Legacy Gorbachev’s Lost Legacy
The most important event of the late twentieth century began twenty years ago this month.
Feb 24, 2005 / Stephen F. Cohen