Society

The Professor of Desire The Professor of Desire

When Philip Roth compiles lists of the writers he most admires, Tolstoy never seems to make it. There's Flaubert, Kafka, Bellow--the touchstones. Gogol, Dostoyevsky, Célin...

May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Keith Gessen

Pacifica Management’s Lies and Misrepresentations Pacifica Management’s Lies and Misrepresentations

A Reply to 'Pacifica Myths and Realities' May 23, 2001

May 24, 2001 / Lyn Gerry

State Outsources Secret War State Outsources Secret War

Best known as a place where the Air Force shoots satellites into orbit, the Eastern Space and Missile Center--just south of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida's Brevard County--w...

May 23, 2001 / Feature / Jason Vest

Bush’s Faustian Deal With the Taliban Bush’s Faustian Deal With the Taliban

Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-US terrorists, destroy every vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush Administration will embrace you. All that matters is...

May 22, 2001 / Column / Robert Scheer

Sites for Sore Eyes Sites for Sore Eyes

This magazine has been inundated of late with missives from irate Naderites demanding that the editors immediately exile me to The New Republic, the DLC or worse. My last column ...

May 17, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman

What Sontag Said in Jerusalem What Sontag Said in Jerusalem

Susan Sontag went to Israel and picked up her Jerusalem Prize on May 9. Ori Nir reported in Haaretz the following day that after accepting the prize from Jerusalem's mayor, Ehud ...

May 17, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Villaraigosa’s Hot in Los Angeles Villaraigosa’s Hot in Los Angeles

His mayoral campaign platform is the most progressive in modern city history.

May 17, 2001 / Feature / Marc Cooper

No Rush to Judges No Rush to Judges

President Bush's first list of nominees to the US Circuit Courts of Appeal, unveiled on May 8, was deceptively conciliatory and seeded with hard-to-oppose minorities and women, st...

May 17, 2001 / The Editors

Tax Cut Madness Tax Cut Madness

If all goes as the GOP has planned, George W. Bush will have on his desk by Memorial Day a $1.35 trillion tax bill that is wrongheaded and an utterly inequitable pander to the pri...

May 17, 2001 / The Editors

The Election Race Card The Election Race Card

"Let me take you on a journey to a foreign land. To Britain after a second term of Tony Blair." With these words, Conservative Party leader William Hague began a speech in March t...

May 17, 2001 / Feature / John Ghazvinian

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