Society

The Holy Land The Holy Land

During the harsh New York City winter of 1909-10, 20,000 garment workers marched and picketed to win recognition of their union.

May 29, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Michael Kazin

Among the Believers Among the Believers

Paul Elie's The Life You Save May Be Your Own is a deft and ambitious four-part biography interweaving the lives of Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Walker Percy and Flannery O'Conn...

May 29, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Vince Passaro

The Liar The Liar

Steal this book.

May 29, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Emily Nussbaum

Far From Heaven Far From Heaven

During the early years of the civil rights revolution, Theodore Bilbo, the ferocious segregationist senator from Mississippi, published a book titled Take Your Choice: Separati...

May 29, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Michael Lind

White Lies White Lies

The radio went on in the middle of the night and there in my ear was the voice of a young man.

May 29, 2003 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Liberalizing the Law Liberalizing the Law

With the Bush Administration continuing to fill the federal courts with right-wing judges, liberals have turned with renewed vigor to a strategy that not only allows them to de...

May 29, 2003 / Alexander Wohl

Mirror of the Times Mirror of the Times

With all the words laundered over the Jayson Blair affair, why is my soul still disquieted? Why do I feel even further from the truth than on the day the journalistic fraud was...

May 29, 2003 / James W. Carey

Fight Club Fight Club

Writing may be fighting, as Ishmael Reed famously opined, but most writers know the difference. There are, of course, some who blur the line.

May 22, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Adam Shatz

Offering Hope–at a Price Offering Hope–at a Price

US drug firms make the choice clear: our outrageous profits or your life.

May 22, 2003 / Feature / Katharine Greider

Forgetting to Laugh Forgetting to Laugh

Of all the columns I've written, never have I gotten more mail than for the following sentence: "It will not matter that the Dixie Chicks play to full, cheering houses, while t...

May 22, 2003 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

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