North of the Border North of the Border
One of the most haunting images in David Riker's film La Ciudad is of the New York City skyline seen from a work site miles away from midtown. There, a group of Hispanic dayworke...
Sep 28, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Michael Ugarte
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
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
A City That Worked A City That Worked
The New York of 1945 was the victorious city of the New Deal and World War II, one that can barely be glimpsed today beneath postmodern towers and billboards for dot-com enterprise...
Jul 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Robert W. Snyder
Second-Wave Soundings Second-Wave Soundings
The women's liberation movement, as it was called in the sixties and seventies, was the largest social movement in the history of the United States--and probably in the world.
Jun 15, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Linda Gordon and Rosalyn Baxandall
Flower Power: The Lessons Flower Power: The Lessons
An article in the financial section of the New York Observer this spring described a company named NetJ.com Corporation.
Jun 8, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein
When the CIA Was the NEA When the CIA Was the NEA
In June 1948 George Kennan, director of the State Department's policy planning staff, drafted National Security Directive NSC-10/2.
May 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Michael P. Rogin
The Intervention Blues The Intervention Blues
Perhaps one of the most fatuous theories ever promulgated was Francis Fukuyama's "End of History," put forth just as, in most parts of the world, history resumed its sanguinary p...
Apr 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Ian Williams
Hawking Vietnam Hawking Vietnam
With the twenty-fifth anniversary of the American withdrawal from Vietnam hard upon us, readers and viewers may well be treated to a multitude of reprises of the arguments surrou...
Apr 20, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Richard Falk
Her Own Lambs and Falcons Her Own Lambs and Falcons
It really is about time we had the letters of Rebecca West.
Apr 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Georgette Fleischer