Non-fiction

New China Hand New China Hand

Quite recently yet another of Jasper Becker's indispensable dispatches from China appeared in his newspaper, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post. "Every year," Becker re...

Feb 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / James North

Circus Maximus Circus Maximus

We're sorry, but we do not have permission to present this article on our website. It is an excerpt from Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World (Metropolitan). © ...

Jan 12, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Eduardo Galeano

Russia’s Potemkin Leader Russia’s Potemkin Leader

Modern Russian history, as taught by Clinton Administration spin doctors and Op-Ed pundits, holds that Boris Yeltsin dismembered the Soviet Union and set Russia on a historic pat...

Jan 11, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Dusko Doder

How Stands the Union? How Stands the Union?

In their campaigns for the White House, the major-party candidates--even the one backed by labor--spent little time debating labor-law reform. Nevertheless, the AFL-CIO ha...

Jan 5, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Steve Early

In Our Orbit In Our Orbit

TROOPS IN THE STREETS Nation contributing editor and radio host Marc Cooper was tossed out of the California State University system for antiwar activities in 1971 by executive ...

Jan 5, 2001 / Books & the Arts / The Editors

A Tale of Two Venonas A Tale of Two Venonas

A review of The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors, by Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel.

Dec 22, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Schwartz

Chokehold on the World Chokehold on the World

Are sanctions ethical--or an ill-used weapon of mass destruction?

Dec 14, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Joy Gordon

Double Enmity Double Enmity

Noah Isenberg reviews Communazis, by Alexander Stephan.

Dec 14, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Noah Isenberg

In Our Orbit In Our Orbit

STILL LOSING RUSSIA "As a result of the Yeltsin era, all the fundamental sectors of our state, economic, cultural and moral life have been destroyed or looted," lamented Alexand...

Dec 7, 2000 / Books & the Arts / The Editors

Keepers of the Word Keepers of the Word

O Marvel, that one can give to another what one does not possess. O Miracle of our empty hands.       --George Bernanos, Diary of a Country Priest ...

Dec 7, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Dan Simon

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