Iraq: What the Butler Saw Iraq: What the Butler Saw
At the beginning of September, Hans Blix, head of UNMOVIC, the latest UN commission for verifying Iraqi disarmament, poised to report his new team's readiness to go into Iraq.
Sep 7, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Ian Williams
In the American Grain In the American Grain
After his death in 1975 at the age of 70, Lionel Trilling underwent something of an eclipse.
Sep 7, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans
Freedom From Religion, ¡Si! Freedom From Religion, ¡Si!
"The Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom from religion," Senator Joseph Lieberman told a rapturous audience at a black church a few Sundays ago, just after...
Sep 7, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Rock in a Hard Place Rock in a Hard Place
Blessed with a pitch-perfect name for his métier, Lester Bangs wrote on the subject of rock music--writing, for him, being a matter of slamming two nouns together so the...
Sep 7, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Russia’s Environmental Crisis Russia’s Environmental Crisis
NPR's Living On Earth program broadcast a radio version of this story over the weekend of September 1-3, 2000. Research support provided by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Ins...
Sep 7, 2000 / Feature / Mark Hertsgaard
The Discreet Charm of Hoffa Jr. The Discreet Charm of Hoffa Jr.
Marc Cooper's July 24/31 "Where's Hoffa Driving the Teamsters?" provoked a storm of controversy from Honolulu to Brooklyn.
Sep 7, 2000 / Marc Cooper and Our Readers
A Dream of Californication A Dream of Californication
A genre is dissolving.
Sep 7, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Melvin Jules Bukiet
Selma Is Still Selma Selma Is Still Selma
Selma, Alabama, a touchstone in the civil rights movement, is frozen in a way that confounds onlookers.
Sep 7, 2000 / Amy Bach
‘The Ultimate Bad Review’ ‘The Ultimate Bad Review’
If our political parties insist on producing bad show business, then the least we should demand is that Hollywood make good movies.
Aug 24, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Countdown in Managua Countdown in Managua
A river of people, 19,000 workers, packed ten or twelve across, pours slowly through a bazaar of hawkers toward the gates of the Las Mercedes Free Trade Zone, about a mile from M...
Aug 24, 2000 / Feature / Robert J.S. Ross and Charles Kernaghan