Back Into the Muck Back Into the Muck
Nation pay rates, you may have heard from brother Trillin, are not those of Condé Nast. Every once in a while I don't mind this, because the job just kind of does itself. ...
Mar 7, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman
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
Big Media, Little Media Big Media, Little Media
The nation's largest media corporations are now poised to gain dramatically greater control over what Americans watch, listen to and read. A February 19 decision by the US Court ...
Feb 28, 2002 / The Editors
A Stealth Attack on Freedom of the Press A Stealth Attack on Freedom of the Press
The Federal Communications Commission is presently conducting an inquiry--a "rulemaking"--to determine whether to relax, or even to eliminate, the remaining few regulations that ...
Feb 21, 2002 / Feature / Robert W. McChesney and Mark Crispin Miller
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
Parallax and Palestine Parallax and Palestine
The divergence in British and US views on the Middle East has become acute.
Feb 21, 2002 / Feature / D.D. Guttenplan
In Cold Type In Cold Type
Some magazines have an identity problem, and some don't. The New York Review of Books doesn't, as you may have noticed. It's relentlessly highbrow, which is how we like it. For t...
Feb 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
The Black Pathology Biz The Black Pathology Biz
Black pathology is big business. Two-thirds of teenage mothers are white, two-thirds of welfare recipients are white and white youth commit most of the crime in this country.
Feb 12, 2002 / Feature / Ishmael Reed