Bad Work Bad Work
Howard Gardner, the noted education/cognition specialist, recently undertook, with two colleagues, an in-depth study of the work-related happiness of two groups of people, gene...
May 2, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman
The Pull of ‘New Gravity’ The Pull of ‘New Gravity’
In an end-of-the-year column devoted to "Politics and Prose," Peter Beinart, editor of The New Republic, asserted that there had been a "new gravity" and "sobriety" to American jo...
Apr 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Mark Mordue
In Cold Type In Cold Type
The new Daedalus is out. I have to admit to having not read Daedalus with much fervor in the past, say, fifteen years (well, if ever, to be honest), but I was curious about the ve...
Mar 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
Two Cheers for Our Side Two Cheers for Our Side
One of the pitfalls of publishing a weekly journal of critical opinion at a moment when the political culture has drifted to the right is that there is so much of which to be cri...
Feb 28, 2002 / The Editors
Condolences to Musharraf Condolences to Musharraf
What the Islamic fascists do, and what they believe, and what they intend, are three aspects of the same one-dimensional thing. It is ludicrous to accuse them of being untrue to th...
Feb 28, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Unhappy Anniversary Unhappy Anniversary
The McLaughlin Group is about to "celebrate" its twentieth anniversary. We might as well "celebrate" the discovery of anthrax. The show flatters itself--and its corporate ...
Feb 21, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman
Food Fight Food Fight
Organic farming critic Dennis Avery is supported by generous contributions from several chemical companies, all of whom profit from the sale of products prohibited in organic produ...
Dec 20, 2001 / Feature / Mark Dowie
A Teflon Correspondent A Teflon Correspondent
John Stossel has high Q-ratings, so he doesn't have to worry about the rules.
Dec 20, 2001 / Feature / Mark Dowie
The Wages of Synergy The Wages of Synergy
Synergy—it's all well and good. But media consolidation's dark side often raises its head.
Dec 20, 2001 / Feature / Janine Jaquet