In Dubious Battle In Dubious Battle
Say what you will about the sins of the Bush Administration. But credit it with one small but welcome accomplishment: It has moved Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Sep 23, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Michael Kazin
Homeland Insecurity Homeland Insecurity
One hundred years ago, in the wake of England's ruinous victory in the Boer War, a young Liberal politician excoriated the ruling Conservative Party and its imperial scam: "A par...
Sep 23, 2004 / Books & the Arts / George Scialabba
The Chastening of the Times The Chastening of the Times
On March 9, 2003, a distinguished group of high-ranking politicians and journalists descended on the Bryant Park Hotel to attend a wedding reception for the then-executive editor...
Sep 23, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Scott Sherman
Of Human Bondage Of Human Bondage
In the sequence of revolutions that remade the Atlantic world between 1776 and 1825, the Haitian Revolution is rarely given its due, yet without it the progressive credentials of...
Sep 16, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Robin Blackburn
Difficult Loves Difficult Loves
It wasn't until 1996, when President Bill Clinton declared April to be National Poetry Month, that the eminent translator and poet Richard Howard truly grasped the significance o...
Sep 16, 2004 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella
Dangerous Liaisons Dangerous Liaisons
Conspiracy theories are hard to kill.
Sep 9, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Robert Baer
The Burden of Memory The Burden of Memory
Perhaps you noticed them in the main square of your town this year--or last year, or any year you've been alive, in any town where you've ever lived: a group of people solemnly a...
Sep 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Meline Toumani
The Poverty of Theory The Poverty of Theory
Gertrude Himmelfarb is a remarkable woman. Remarkable, first, because in some respects she is a pioneer.
Sep 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Linda Colley
Totem and Taboo Totem and Taboo
It did not take long for a term that not long ago was slanderous to become a cliché.
Sep 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Ronald Steel
The Big Sleep The Big Sleep
From its inception, the AIDS pandemic has generated extraordinary expressions of sadness and anger. The sadness is easy to understand.
Aug 26, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Sheila M. Rothman