Politics

In Our Orbit In Our Orbit

LIBERTÉ, EGALITÉ, FÉMINISME "Feminism...is the most popular and most effective movement to emerge from the sixties left," writes Katha Pollitt in her introdu...

Mar 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / The Editors

Anti-Catholic? Round Two Anti-Catholic? Round Two

If a critic's clout can be measured by the ability to make an artist's name, the most important art critic in America today is clearly Rudolph Giuliani. Just over a year ago he e...

Mar 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt

The Spanish Mien The Spanish Mien

V.S. Pritchett, whose essays are an invaluable companion, a sort of Dante's Virgil in the navigation of modern literature, once described Don Quixote as "the novel that killed a c...

Mar 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans

Right With Bush Right With Bush

Every conservative is now a compassionate conservative. Well, most were at the recent annual Conservative Political Action Conference, which drew more than 3,000 right-wing acti...

Feb 23, 2001 / David Corn

Bush’s Nuclear Revival Bush’s Nuclear Revival

George W. Bush's mid-February directive ordering the Pentagon to review and restructure the US nuclear arsenal is a wake-up call for supporters of arms control and disarmament....

Feb 23, 2001 / William D. Hartung

Thomas Speaks! Thomas Speaks!

Back during the presidential campaign, George W. Bush called Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia his favorite Supreme Court Justices--a remark widely interpreted at the time as ...

Feb 23, 2001 / Bruce Shapiro

Race: the Continental Divide Race: the Continental Divide

The first moments of a recent documentary about Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Rebels With a Cause, recall one of the signal images of the 1960s civil rights struggle: p...

Feb 23, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Stanley Aronowitz

Nader and the Politics of Fear Nader and the Politics of Fear

He and the Greens are both a problem and a possible asset for the Democrats.

Feb 23, 2001 / Feature / William Greider

Bully in the Pulpit? Bully in the Pulpit?

Bully in the Pulpit? The following is a forum on Ellen Willis's "Freedom From Religion," which appeared in the February 19 issue.       --The ...

Feb 23, 2001 / Tom Hayden, Michael Eric Dyson, Ellen Willis, Michael Kazin, Frances Kissling, Arthur Hertzberg, Richard Parker, Jim Wallis, and Rosalind Pollack Petchesky

Little Elegy in G Minor Little Elegy in G Minor

A box of Chopin nocturnes handed down from the other side of my mother's death-- evening gowns in trash bags making a little Golgotha of their own right in the corner of that stud...

Feb 23, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Timothy Liu

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