Books and Ideas

Suffragist City Suffragist City

Two new books examine the history of the first women's rights campaign.

Apr 8, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Mary Beth Norton

Seems Like Old Times Seems Like Old Times

This week's episode: Dieter Countryman reminisces about the good ol' days of selling the first Gulf War; Connie Waller gets his freak on in Vegas.

Apr 7, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Gary Phillips

A Neo-Deal A Neo-Deal

The new positive rights of the twenty-first century.

Apr 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / William Alexander Organek

A Modern Government A Modern Government

We must embrace the universal benefits of a government dedicated to preparing citizens for acompetitive and unpredictable world.

Apr 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Max Rose

Israel Is Israel Is

Israel Is Israel is he or she who wrestles with God--call him what you will, not some goon (with a rabbi and gun) in a pre-fab home on a biblical hill....

Apr 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Peter Cole

Questions of Loyalty Questions of Loyalty

Revisionist histories of the Vietnam War challenge the notion that the South Vietnam government was a dysfunctional pseudo-state.

Apr 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Matt Steinglass

La Zone Grise La Zone Grise

Five books explore the sorrows and moral complexity of Irène Némirovsky and others who suffered Nazi persecution in France.

Apr 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Alice Kaplan

Blowing Smoke Blowing Smoke

In Nicholson Baker's cut-and-paste history, the "good war" is bad.

Apr 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt

On the Struggle For The Democratic Nomination On the Struggle For The Democratic Nomination

The race is theirs to lose.

Apr 3, 2008 / Column / Calvin Trillin

The Way Forward The Way Forward

The New Deal demonstrated the power of government to address failures of the market, and to retreat once it was no longer needed

Apr 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Kirti Datla

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