Naipaul Writes Home Naipaul Writes Home
Many years ago, when I was about the age that V.S. Naipaul was when he departed Trinidad for England, I would borrow books by him from the library of an erstwhile colonial club i...
Feb 10, 2000 / Books & the Arts / S. Shankar
Business Creates Eco-Side! Business Creates Eco-Side!
Natural Capitalism is so informative and provocative--and so unfashionably optimistic about the future of the planet--that I wonder why everyone in public life is not reading it ...
Feb 10, 2000 / Books & the Arts / William Greider
Bobby, He Hardly Knew Ye Bobby, He Hardly Knew Ye
Robert Scheer was the last journalist to interview Robert Kennedy.
Feb 3, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Robert Scheer
Rebel Yell Rebel Yell
The recent march in South Carolina, demanding the removal of the Confederate flag from the state Capitol is the latest episode in a long-running debate over the legacy of slavery.&...
Jan 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
Not Dead Yet Not Dead Yet
Critics predicted the death of literature for much of the twentieth century, but at the dawn of the Internet age, the mantra is becoming conventional wisdom.
Jan 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Was It Good Party Music? Was It Good Party Music?
Lionel Trilling once commented that "if ever we want to remind ourselves of the nature and power of art, we have only to think of how accurate reactionary governments are in thei...
Jan 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Jeremy Eichler
The Woman Who Would Be Senator The Woman Who Would Be Senator
As you may have heard once or twice, we have a little Senate race going here in New York.
Jan 20, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Michael Tomasky
‘The First Environmentalists’ ‘The First Environmentalists’
For thirty years, since the publication of Silent Spring and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, the growth of the environmental movement has been fueled with sorrow for the decimatio...
Jan 20, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Mindy Pennybacker
Of Scientists and Spies Of Scientists and Spies
After thirty years spent building the Federation of American Scientists into one of the country's most valuable and venerable institutional voices for peace, democracy and real s...
Jan 13, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman
Benjamin & the City of Light Benjamin & the City of Light
In September 1940, with a weak heart and even frailer nerves, Walter Benjamin carried on an old smugglers' path in the French Pyrenean foothills a big black briefcase stuffed wit...
Jan 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Andy Merrifield