Post-Littleton Gun Vote in the Senate Post-Littleton Gun Vote in the Senate
When guns became the issue of the day, Republicans, as is their custom, put Their party right behind the NRA, And shot themselves quite badly in the foot.
May 27, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Rolling Thunder: the Rerun Rolling Thunder: the Rerun
People concerned about the US-led NATO war against Yugoslavia find much to reflect upon in the Vietnam experience.
May 27, 1999 / Books & the Arts / George Kenney
Episode I–The Phantom Menace Episode I–The Phantom Menace
Not only now but every week, I am reminded at two-minute intervals of the influence of Star Wars.
May 20, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Monthly Review at 50 Monthly Review at 50
Monthly Review celebrated its semicentennial on May 7 with a Manhattan bash featuring loyalists Ossie Davis, Adrienne Rich and Cornel West, and a special retrospective May issue ...
May 20, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Paul Buhle
Of Time and the Artist Of Time and the Artist
One afternoon in 1985, I rode in a taxi down Broadway with the physicist I.I. Rabi, discussing time and age.
May 20, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
CCA, the Sequel CCA, the Sequel
James Neal is a short, muscular man with close-cropped hair who has spent the past twelve years behind bars for armed robbery.
May 20, 1999 / Feature / Eric Bates
No Sweat No Sweat
The bucolic, palm-studded campus of Stanford bears no resemblance to the old and gritty auto workers' summer camp at Port Huron, Michigan, where SDS was formed in 1962.
May 20, 1999 / Feature / Marc Cooper
Smart Bombs Smart Bombs
There was quite an astonishing little item in the paper recently about the sort of thing that makes me glad I grew up in the inner city: i.e., the national proliferation of "assa...
May 20, 1999 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Kosovars and Palestinians Kosovars and Palestinians
Many Jews have, understandably, seen parallels between the tragic events in Kosovo and their experiences of the Holocaust. But in fact, it is not a good parallel.
May 20, 1999 / Ghada Karmi
Iraqi Sideshow Continues Iraqi Sideshow Continues
On May 12 the Iraqi News Agency reported the deaths of twelve people, including two children, and 200 head of livestock near the northern city of Mosul, caused by American bombs.
May 20, 1999 / Dilip Hiro