Articles

Village Idiots, Then & Now Village Idiots, Then & Now

To watch Lars von Trier's The Idiots is to see a dead dog rise and howl at the moon.

May 11, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

A Closing of the American Kind A Closing of the American Kind

You will recall that when Augie March went to Mexico, he hooked up with an eagle, which he called Caligula.

May 11, 2000 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard

What Monsanto Knew What Monsanto Knew

In a small brick house strung year-round with Christmas lights, behind curtains made of flowered sheets, Jeremiah Smith is listening to his favorite preacher on the radio.

May 11, 2000 / Feature / Nancy Beiles

The NRA Wants You The NRA Wants You

Research assistance was provided by the Elections 2000 Fund of the Nation Institute.

May 11, 2000 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss

Underground Against the Taliban Underground Against the Taliban

The atrocities of the Afghan Taliban toward women have been widely reported in the Western press: women banned from work; forbidden to leave their homes unless shrouded in the bu...

May 11, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Second Thoughts on the Family Values Front Second Thoughts on the Family Values Front

Republicans, observing young González Removed at night, thought they could take some solace From hearings showing Reno as a baddie.

May 11, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin

The Battle of Vieques The Battle of Vieques

Puerto Ricans’ opposition to the Navy’s suffocating presence had been brewing long before the sit-in.

May 11, 2000 / Ed Morales

Cheney Is an Oaf on Conservation Cheney Is an Oaf on Conservation

His considerable portfolio reflects his identity as a Texas oilman and a friend to oil-rich Saudis.

May 8, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

Circus Minimus Circus Minimus

According to Gibbon, the emperor Commodus spent the early years of his reign "in a seraglio of three hundred beautiful women and as many boys, of every rank and of every province...

May 3, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Copyright as Censorship Copyright as Censorship

The British government, increasingly desperate to silence a former MI5 intelligence officer who has been campaigning to expose government misconduct, has sued him and a London ne...

May 3, 2000 / Feature / Jon Wiener

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