The Ground Beneath My Feet The Ground Beneath My Feet
In the summer of 1986 I was traveling in Nicaragua, working on the book of reportage that was published six months later as The Jaguar Smile. It was the seventh anniversary of th...
Jun 21, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Salman Rushdie
A Former Fraternity President Deals With the Nuclear Proliferation Issue A Former Fraternity President Deals With the Nuclear Proliferation Issue
Though Bush intends to drop the missile treaty, He's happy that this Putin guy's so neat, he Will prove to be the nicest sort of Roosky. So just relax, and crack yourself a br...
Jun 21, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Letters Letters
'YO MAMA' IS A BIGOT New York City Arthur C. Danto contends that Renee Cox's Yo Mama's Last Supper is not anti-Catholic and deserves First Amendment protec...
Jun 21, 2001 / Eric Alterman, Arthur C. Danto, Maria Margaronis, and Our Readers
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
Liberating Vieques Liberating Vieques
When George W. Bush announced from Sweden on June 14 that he planned to pull the US Navy out of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques by 2003, it struck some as odd when he referred ...
Jun 21, 2001 / Angelo Falcón
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
Renaissance Men, by the Letter Renaissance Men, by the Letter
"I want to know everything, everything...and I'm going to. I want to visit the theatre and the opera and the art galleries. I want to meet people. I want to learn...." The words a...
Jun 14, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Paul Gardner
Joe Hill Goes to Harvard Joe Hill Goes to Harvard
On May 8 twenty-three jubilant, grubby Harvard students left the offices of university president Neil Rudenstine after a twenty-one-day sit-in, the longest in Harvard's history. ...
Jun 14, 2001 / Feature / Jane Manners
Run WFP Run! Run WFP Run! Run WFP Run! Run WFP Run!
Run WFP Run! Run WFP Run! New York City Doug Ireland's offhand comments about the Working Families Party's role in the upcoming municipal elections in New Yor...
Jun 14, 2001 / Doug Ireland and Our Readers