The Spies Who Loved Us? The Spies Who Loved Us?
I still kick myself for not having saved the short story I wrote for composition class in seventh grade in which I described how the Russians took over my small suburban communit...
May 6, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Ellen Schrecker
The Liberals’ Folly The Liberals’ Folly
Liberals in the Democratic Party should withdraw their support for the Kosovo war. So should the Democratic Party.
May 6, 1999 / Tom Hayden
Belgrade Degraded Belgrade Degraded
Every now and then it really happens. A "military spokesman" emerges to prove that Joseph Heller was a realist, and Catch-22 a work of reportorial integrity.
Apr 29, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Saddam the Phoenix Saddam the Phoenix
Thanks principally to the reports of Barton Gellman in the Washington Post since last October, we know that US intelligence services fatally misused the United Nations Special C...
Apr 29, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Dilip Hiro
Whistleblower’s Trill on Iraq Whistleblower’s Trill on Iraq
Iraq is out of the news, mostly, except for the occasional report of a missile fired from a US jet flying over it on patrol. And Maj. Scott Ritter is off the air.
Apr 29, 1999 / Books & the Arts / William M. Arkin
Battle Hymn Battle Hymn
We're bombing you back to the Stone Age, Slobo, To teach you that you must behave. When all of our bombing is finished, Slobo,
Apr 15, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Ethnic Poisoning Ethnic Poisoning
In the very first days of Kosovo's drama of the dispossessed--a calculated atrocity that Slobodan Milosevic probably thinks of as his "exodus strategy"--the most amazing mantra ...
Apr 15, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Nationalism Unleashed Nationalism Unleashed
We Hungarians entered NATO on March 12.
Apr 15, 1999 / George Konrad
Solzhenitsyn’s History Lesson Solzhenitsyn’s History Lesson
Knowledge of Khrushchev's reaction cited above is personal; he was the author's grandfather.
Apr 15, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Nina Khrushcheva
False History Lessons False History Lessons
Confronted with the inexplicable, policy-makers and pundits alike grope for the apt historical analogy. It's a natural human reaction.
Apr 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Kai Bird