Books and Ideas

Bush Urges Expanded Drilling Of Alaskan Wildlife Bush Urges Expanded Drilling Of Alaskan Wildlife

The President urged Congress Tuesday to pass an appropriations bill that would enable expanded drilling of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's animals.

Oct 11, 2006 / The Nation

Nuremberg: Past, Present and Future Nuremberg: Past, Present and Future

Let us follow the example set by the judges and prosecutors who pursued justice in the Nuremberg Trials to lead America back to a reverence for the rule of law and the common good.

Oct 10, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Sen. Christopher Dodd

Cultural Famine: A Cycle Cultural Famine: A Cycle

Famine is at its worst when people waste away and die. But there is another kind of famine: the death of the human soul--the emptiness and senseless cynicism in this country that h...

Oct 8, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Walter Mosley

America, Through a Glass Darkly America, Through a Glass Darkly

An intellectual biography of Richard Hofstadter rides a wave of nostalgia for this artful historian and liberal icon of the 1950s and '60s.

Oct 5, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener

We Got Those Wall- To-Wall 24/7 Damage-Control Blues We Got Those Wall- To-Wall 24/7 Damage-Control Blues

Bush and his boys will be singing this little ditty all the way to the voting booth.

Oct 5, 2006 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Death Trip Death Trip

Philip Roth and Joan Didion have each written compellingly about death, but their insights about dying and mourning signify a retreat from the world rather than an embrace of the f...

Oct 5, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Richard Goldstein

Flustered Bush Misses Air Force One Flight Flustered Bush Misses Air Force One Flight

The President narrowly missed his Air Force One flight to Boise after arriving just moments after the plane's doors had closed.

Oct 3, 2006 / The Nation

The Dubya Diaries The Dubya Diaries

"Some expert on CNN said, 'A stitch in time saves nine.' And I thought, Doesn't anyone speak clearly anymore? Nine what?"

Sep 28, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Rosecrans Baldwin

A Metaphysical Materialist A Metaphysical Materialist

Philosopher Walter Benjamin married Marxism and theology in an attempt to give hope to the hopeless.

Sep 28, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Richard Wolin

Modern Love Modern Love

Two new biographies of Clement Greenberg take the measure of an ambitious art critic who had a knack for predicting success.

Sep 28, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

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