Politics

Aren’t We Happy Yet? Aren’t We Happy Yet?

There was a short note in the New York Times a few months ago reporting that Governor Jeb Bush wept while speaking to the Southern Regional Conference of the National Baptist Con...

Jul 27, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Violence in Genoa Violence in Genoa

Violence in Genoa Demonstrations at the recent G-8 summit in Genoa resulted in

Jul 26, 2001 / Nicholas Jackson, Andrea Pertosa, Alex Crowley, Faith Hareldson, Troy Davis, Rob Miller, and Louise C. Hensleigh

The Battle of Genoa The Battle of Genoa

Organizers of the anti-G8 protest in Genoa say that 200,000 people came from all over Italy and Europe to join the mammoth demonstration yesterday.

Jul 21, 2001 / Feature / Walden Bello

A.I. at Universal U A.I. at Universal U

Thinks..., David Lodge's new novel about cognitive science, university politics and marital infidelity, shows once again the author's knack for making intellectual concepts user-f...

Jul 12, 2001 / Books & the Arts / David L. Sweet

A Strong Dollar Clouds Prospects For Quick Rebound A Strong Dollar Clouds Prospects For Quick Rebound

      --Headline, New York Times The dollar's strong. That must be good. It's doing what a dollar should. Not so. The world cannot afford our...

Jul 12, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Letters Letters

THE HUDSON, THE MOON, THE JEJUNE Washington, DC Eric Alterman's July 2 "Full-Court Press" insinuates that the Hudson Institute "sent [scholar Evan Gahr] pa...

Jul 12, 2001 / Our Readers

Virtual Pinocchio Virtual Pinocchio

Why did Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick want Spielberg to direct Kubrick's A.I., the fable of a robot who wants a human mother's love? Imagine the personals ad Kubrick might ...

Jul 12, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Tim Appelo

Mother Courage Mother Courage

Kate Millett. Feminist, sculptor, lesbian, activist, advocate, New Yorker to the core. Just over thirty years ago, Millett published the hugely influential bestseller Sexual Polit...

Jul 12, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Hillary Frey

In Fact… In Fact…

WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR REBATE? Starting the week of July 23, many Americans will begin receiving tax "rebates" as part of George W. Bush's massive tax-cut scheme aimed at helping ...

Jul 12, 2001 / The Editors

Music for Chameleons Music for Chameleons

When they came for Newton Arvin, as he had always known they someday would--the sex cops, the truth squad, the Cossacks, fathers and philistines--he spilled his beings. In the cro...

Jul 12, 2001 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard

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