Non-fiction

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

Passages to India Passages to India

In the early 1920s, E.M.

Apr 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Amitava Kumar

The New U The New U

While the public has been napping, the American university has been busily reinventing itself.

Mar 30, 2000 / Books & the Arts / David Kirp

All the President’s Mien All the President’s Mien

Leon Aron, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, has over the past few years become known as an authority on Boris Yeltsin, a man he patently likes and has vig...

Mar 9, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Abraham Brumberg

Executioners’ Songs Executioners’ Songs

The Control Equipment such as Voltage Regulators, Auto Transformers, Oil Circuit Breakers, Panel Board, etc., was designed by and supplied by General Electric Company.

Mar 9, 2000 / Books & the Arts / JoAnn Wypijewski

Dade Ain’t Disney Dade Ain’t Disney

Tired of all the stuff about the Cuban kid who is rapidly being turned into the most pampered brat in the world? The press can be blamed, of course.

Feb 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Robert Sherrill

Business Creates Eco-Side! Business Creates Eco-Side!

Natural Capitalism is so informative and provocative--and so unfashionably optimistic about the future of the planet--that I wonder why everyone in public life is not reading it ...

Feb 10, 2000 / Books & the Arts / William Greider

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