Acting for Justice Acting for Justice
The two entertainment unions, already angered over runaway production, have tenaciously met the challenge and escalated the fight.
Sep 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Marc Cooper
On Painting Reality On Painting Reality
We've got too many stimuli and not enough places to put them. And so, perhaps, we keep moving around the surplus excitement, sticking it onto this or that image, with the unint...
Sep 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
‘The Big Discourse’ ‘The Big Discourse’
Unusually sensitive to the fast-changing character of liberal social structures, C. Wright Mills proved impervious to the bitter ironies of reform.
Sep 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / John Summers
Bad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do… Bad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do…
Christina Hoff Summers is hot with righteous indignation on boys' behalf.
Sep 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Mark Edmundson
Why Dubya Can’t Read Why Dubya Can’t Read
The poor guy is obviously dyslexic, and dyslexic to the point of near-illiteracy.
Sep 24, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Christopher Hitchens
A Dream of Californication A Dream of Californication
A genre is dissolving.
Sep 7, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Melvin Jules Bukiet
Rock in a Hard Place Rock in a Hard Place
Blessed with a pitch-perfect name for his métier, Lester Bangs wrote on the subject of rock music--writing, for him, being a matter of slamming two nouns together so the...
Sep 7, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
‘The Ultimate Bad Review’ ‘The Ultimate Bad Review’
If our political parties insist on producing bad show business, then the least we should demand is that Hollywood make good movies.
Aug 24, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Shedding Lincoln’s Mantle Shedding Lincoln’s Mantle
American politicians are not noted for their historical self-consciousness.
Jul 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
A Devil Theory of Islam A Devil Theory of Islam
Judith Miller is a New York Times reporter much in evidence on talk shows and seminars on the Middle East.
Jul 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Edward W. Said