Books and Ideas

Screening Our Politics Screening Our Politics

Like Pop-Up Video--one of the many things the movie-industry left never anticipated--ancillary factoids keep imposing themselves on Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner's Radical Hollywood:...

Aug 1, 2002 / Books & the Arts / John Anderson

9/11: The Satire 9/11: The Satire

I don't know if it's some childhood image left over from Victory at Sea or from a book of pictures my uncle brought back from the service, but when I think about the war in the Pa...

Aug 1, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Hal Gelb

Handicapping the Crippled Handicapping the Crippled

More than thirty years ago, in an essay called "Uncle Tom and Tiny Tim: Some Reflections on the Cripple as Negro," I suggested that cripples emulate the civil rights movement by f...

Aug 1, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Leonard Kriegel

The Port Huron Statement at 40 The Port Huron Statement at 40

On its anniversary, two of its authors assess its relevance for today.

Jul 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Tom Hayden and Dick Flacks

Bennett’s Pledge of Allegiance Bennett’s Pledge of Allegiance

 

Jul 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Marcus G. Raskin

Dubyaspeak Dubyaspeak

For readers of this magazine and millions of other Americans, the initial horror of September 11 was compounded by the sobering realization that George W. Bush would be at the hel...

Jul 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Elayne Tobin

Screen Rage Screen Rage

One of the most persistent myths in the culture wars today is that social science has proven "media violence" to cause adverse effects. The debate is over; the evidence is over...

Jul 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Marjorie Heins

1776 and All That 1776 and All That

The country is riven and ailing, with a guns-plus-butter nuttiness in some of its governing echelons and the sort of lapsed logic implicit in the collapse of trust in money-center...

Jul 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Edward Hoagland

Poisoned Ivy Poisoned Ivy

Much as I hate to, I'm going to start by talking about the damn money. I'm only doing it because almost everyone else is. It's not just the author profiles and publishing-trad...

Jul 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour

Citizen Jane Citizen Jane

A half-century ago T.H. Marshall, British Labour Party social theorist, offered a progressive, developmental theory for understanding the history of what we have come to call citi...

Jul 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Linda Gordon

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