The Liberal Media, RIP The Liberal Media, RIP
"Electrifying and oh-so vital." If that sounds like model Melania Knauss testifying about the sexual prowess of her former boyfriend, Donald Trump, guess again. It's the sound of...
Feb 23, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman
A Theological Analysis of the South Carolina Primary A Theological Analysis of the South Carolina Primary
In Kennebunk, land of the Bushes, The men of the cloth all wore tweed. And one didn't meet any Christians Like Robertson, Falwell and Reed.
Feb 23, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Lennon’s MI5-FBI Files Lennon’s MI5-FBI Files
The headline in the Sunday Times of London was spectacular: Lennon Funded Terrorists and Trotskyists. It was also erroneous.
Feb 23, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
America’s Debt to Blacks America’s Debt to Blacks
Well before the birth of our country, Europe and the eventual United States perpetrated a heinous wrong against the peoples of Africa and sustained and benefited from the wrong t...
Feb 23, 2000 / Randall Robinson
A Moderate Wouldn’t Make Appointments Like These A Moderate Wouldn’t Make Appointments Like These
It may be legal, but it's still a coup d'état. The nomination of Theodore B. Olson to be solicitor general, a position of such influence that it is often referred to as "t...
Feb 20, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Craven Idolatry Craven Idolatry
For someone who misspent his youth in film societies and revival houses, where mushrooms develop more readily than social skills, a job as a movie reviewer wonderfully eases the ...
Feb 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Salvation in South Africa Salvation in South Africa
Blessed with a great subject, afflicted with it too, J.M. Coetzee has remade its meanings in the light of metaphor often no further from us than our own bodies.
Feb 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Joseph McElroy
Dade Ain’t Disney Dade Ain’t Disney
Tired of all the stuff about the Cuban kid who is rapidly being turned into the most pampered brat in the world? The press can be blamed, of course.
Feb 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Robert Sherrill