Articles

Lord High Executioners Lord High Executioners

He looks like a pear that's going bad. Tall, corpulent and much the worse for gravity, W.S.

Dec 15, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

What Price, Palestine? What Price, Palestine?

The plan to take Israeli athletes hostage during the 1972 Munich Olympic Games was conceived at a cafe on the Piazza della Rotonda in Rome, in the shadow of the Pantheon and the ...

Dec 15, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Michael Young

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

(AP Photo / John Duricka, File)

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

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

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

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

The ‘Single Standard’ in Kosovo The ‘Single Standard’ in Kosovo

Cambridge, Mass.

Dec 15, 1999 / Christopher Hitchens and Noam Chomsky

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

Report From the Front Report From the Front

It is incredible here.

Dec 9, 1999 / Feature / Stephanie Greenwood

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