Rove-r and Out? Rove-r and Out?
Maybe that Karl Rove ain't such a genius. In the past few weeks Democrats have, with a touch of glee, been wondering about George W. Bush's Svengali-strategist as Rove has stepped...
Jun 28, 2001 / David Corn
Drawing for Projection Drawing for Projection
In a famous sequence of photographs, Henri Matisse documented, over the course of six months in 1935, twenty-two states of his evolving Large Reclining Nude. On impulse, I recentl...
Jun 28, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Defining John Kerry Defining John Kerry
"Do you consider yourself a liberal?"
Jun 28, 2001 / Feature / David Corn
GMO? Hell No! GMO? Hell No!
GMO? Hell No! We knew that Danny Kohl's "GM Foods--Another View" [April 16], on genetically modified organism (GMO) technology used in food production, would provoke...
Jun 28, 2001 / Danny Kohl and Our Readers
A Fellow Traveling A Fellow Traveling
Ron Radosh seems an easy target, so easy that a toy pistol (or automatic writing) should be weaponry enough--and no need to bother Nation readers, keen folks that we are, with a d...
Jun 28, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Martin Duberman
Friends at Court Friends at Court
The Supreme Court, in the final week of June, handed down three decisions, each of which seems to endorse a valuable social principle. In the first, involving the right...
Jun 28, 2001 / The Editors
The Limeys The Limeys
Franky Four Fingers. Bullet Tooth Tony. Boris the Blade. Barry the Baptist. Porno king Hatchet Harry, who coshes his victims with a fifteen-inch black rubber cock. These are just ...
Jun 21, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Carl Bromley
Pentagon Papers Chase Pentagon Papers Chase
"The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg." What a marvelous subject! Does any other person's life express more intensely the contradictions of American experience during the past fi...
Jun 21, 2001 / Books & the Arts / H. Bruce Franklin
Who’ll Defend Against Missile Defense? Who’ll Defend Against Missile Defense?
Stanford, California Arriving to record a television debate at the Hoover Institution here a few months ago, I found the personnel of the preceding show still standing aro...
Jun 21, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
In Fact… In Fact…
FIRST AMENDMENT BEDFELLOWS Every once in a while it behooves this 135-year-old journal (136 on July 5!) to remind ourselves that, like the broken clock that is right twice a day,...
Jun 21, 2001 / The Editors