Books and Ideas

Sweet Soul Music Sweet Soul Music

As Trent Lott struggled to "repudiate" segregation fifty years after it was outlawed, about the only point he left out of his incoherent counterattack is that he was a soul-mus...

Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro

Occupation Blues Occupation Blues

While Israel's decisive victories on the battlefield and overwhelming advantage in military force are crucial to its dominance in the Middle East, perhaps just as important is ...

Dec 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Robert Jensen

New York, New York New York, New York

The economy of New York City still reels from the attack on September 11, to which has been added the economic effect of global recession and Wall Street's sharp decline.

Dec 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Mary Campbell Gallagher

Apocalypse Now? Apocalypse Now?

Judgment Day is everyday with Mike Davis.

Dec 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jane Holtz Kay

The Conservative Imagination The Conservative Imagination

Dinesh D'Souza became a right-wing campus radical at Dartmouth in the late Carter years. His motives should be recognizable to former campus radicals of the other variety.

Dec 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / George Packer

Beyond the AIDS Quilt Beyond the AIDS Quilt

Last year marked the "twentieth anniversary" of AIDS, a grim occasion, to say the least, that put major US newspapers in an unenviable predicament.

Dec 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kim

Frederick Seidel of St. Louis Frederick Seidel of St. Louis

Frederick Seidel of St. Louis, Missouri, is probably the last American decadent--certainly he is the most distinguished.

Dec 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Robyn Creswell

Diary of the Bridget Joneses Diary of the Bridget Joneses

If single women have been told once, they've been told a thousand times: Don't think you're ever too successful or too young to have your ovaries shrivel up and die. Use 'em or...

Dec 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ashley Nelson

Rawls and Us Rawls and Us

The late John Rawls was, by all accounts, a remarkably modest and generous person, much beloved by his friends and students, and profoundly uninterested in the kinds of fame an...

Dec 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

Who Will Tell the People? Who Will Tell the People?

Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers is Daniel Ellsberg's story of his personal journey from being in the early 1960s a "dedicated cold warrior" who supported A...

Dec 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / David Rudenstine

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