Adventures in Book Reviewing Adventures in Book Reviewing
Back in 1994, Christina Hoff Sommers accused The New York Times Book Review of unfairly assigning her attack on the women's movement, Who Stole Feminism?, to the distinguished sc...
Mar 28, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The Fishnet Fallacy The Fishnet Fallacy
When a girl becomes her school's designated slut, her friends stop talking to her. Pornographic rumors spread with dazzling efficiency, boys harass her openly in the hallways, gir...
Mar 28, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Elaine Blair
Is There a Future for Pacifica? Is There a Future for Pacifica?
The jury is still out on whether it can restore, let alone enhance, its influence.
Mar 28, 2002 / Feature / Susan J. Douglas
Oscar Opens the Door Oscar Opens the Door
As Halle Berry elegantly strode to the podium to accept her best actress Oscar, the first for a black woman, she wept uncontrollably and gasped, "This moment is so much bigger tha...
Mar 28, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Michael Eric Dyson
Lieberman in Enronland Lieberman in Enronland
It has come to this: The investigation of Enron as a political scandal appears for now to depend on Senator Joseph Lieberman, an Enron Democrat who bagged Enron campaign contribut...
Mar 28, 2002 / The Editors
We’ve Gotta Have It We’ve Gotta Have It
Black filmmakers seize the moment.
Mar 27, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour
Stealth Vouchers Stealth Vouchers
While most of the media focused, with good reason, on the huge increase in military spending and dramatic cuts in domestic programs in President Bush's $2.1 trillion budget propos...
Mar 22, 2002 / Feature / Bill Berkowitz
Feeding the Hungry Feeding the Hungry
When Bill Clinton signed the welfare overhaul in 1996, he and his supporters promised that its problems could be fixed later. One problem at the top of the list was the bill's sav...
Mar 21, 2002 / David Sarasohn
The Year of the Yellow Notepad The Year of the Yellow Notepad
Call it the year of the yellow notepad. Doris Kearns Goodwin, ejected from Parnassus, Pulitzer jury service and kindred honorable obligations, sinks under charges of plagiarism c...
Mar 21, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
The Migrant’s Story The Migrant’s Story
A Mexican migrant acquaintance once told me that he'd love the opportunity to brief Congress on immigration policy. Let us imagine him now, walking into the hallowed chamber, dress...
Mar 21, 2002 / Rubén Martinez