A Son’s Own Story A Son’s Own Story
If you are looking for a piece of new evidence that will finally vindicate or convict Alger Hiss with certainty, you won't find it in Tony Hiss's poignant father-son memoir, A Vi...
Nov 4, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Jack Gelber
A Dialectical Humanism A Dialectical Humanism
To my distress and perhaps to my delight, I order things in accordance with my passions.... I put in my pictures everything I like.
Nov 4, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Andy Merrifield
The ‘Right’ Books and Big Ideas The ‘Right’ Books and Big Ideas
Abigail Thernstrom, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and her husband, Harvard professor Stephan Thernstrom, would like to thank the John M.
Nov 4, 1999 / Feature / Eric Alterman
Buchanan Inc. Buchanan Inc.
Research assistance for this article was provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute.
Nov 4, 1999 / Feature / Monte Paulsen
California’s Gulag on Trial California’s Gulag on Trial
Welcome to Corcoran State Prison, 170 miles northwest of Los Angeles in the San Joaquin Valley; built at a cost of $271.9 million on what was once Tulare Lake, home of the Tachi ...
Nov 4, 1999 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Admiration From Afar Admiration From Afar
They like the way he's not afraid to say That money lets the fat cats get their way. They like his style, the fact he doesn't pander.
Nov 4, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Seven-Year (Old) Snitch The Seven-Year (Old) Snitch
Woe unto the denizens of the Washington press corps when the rest of the world discovers Bob Somerby's Web site, The Daily Howler (www.dailyhowler.com
Nov 4, 1999 / Column / Eric Alterman
Just a Cannes Job? Just a Cannes Job?
Ever since Rosetta won the top prize at this year's Cannes festival, American journalists have puzzled over the jury's decision, or written it off as mere insolence.
Nov 4, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Debt: Just Forget It Debt: Just Forget It
For two decades the International Monetary Fund and its major client, the US Treasury, have made privatization, austere social budgets and market deregulation conditions of loans...
Nov 4, 1999 / Jeff Faux
Night of the Living Dead Night of the Living Dead
Sooner or later, there would have to be fireworks in Bringing Out the Dead.
Oct 28, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans