Society

Nonsilence = Death, Too? Nonsilence = Death, Too?

In seven novels and a collection of essays published since 1981, Sarah Schulman has methodically chronicled the history of her longtime neighborhood, Manhattan's East Village.

Feb 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Mark J. Huisman

Affirmative Racism Affirmative Racism

Students across the country are gearing up to defend affirmative action on a national day of protest on February 24.

Feb 18, 1999 / Laura Flanders

Hillary for Veep? Hillary for Veep?

It is, depending on one's perspective, a delicious and redemptive scenario, a terrible nightmare or, if you are the escapist sort that hasn't yet cottoned to the hard reality of...

Feb 18, 1999 / Elaine Lafferty

When Cops Are Killers When Cops Are Killers

"Justice for Amadou Diallo!" has been the rallying cry throughout New York since four police officers gunned down the unarmed West African immigrant as he stood outside his apartme...

Feb 18, 1999 / Angela Ards

Policing Cyberspace Policing Cyberspace

Free speech, Oliver Wendell Holmes famously declared, ought not to extend to falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater. But what are the limits on shouting across the wide-open...

Feb 11, 1999 / The Editors

LA Story: Backlash of the Boosters LA Story: Backlash of the Boosters

What happens to a leading Marxist writer after he gets a MacArthur genius grant, a Getty Fellowship, and his new book hits number one on the nonfiction bestseller list?

Feb 4, 1999 / Feature / Jon Wiener

Going for the Gunmakers Going for the Gunmakers

A short walk from my home in New Haven stands the farm of that prototypical Connecticut Yankee, Eli Whitney. In 1798 Whitney hit on a bold new scheme: interchangeable parts for...

Feb 4, 1999 / Bruce Shapiro

On Olympic Bribery On Olympic Bribery

'Twas said the honest folks of Salt Lake City Deplored sins large and even itty-bitty. But, trying for the Games, they thought it pretty

Jan 28, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Antichrists Among Us Antichrists Among Us

What could have possessed the Rev. Jerry Falwell to announce that the Antichrist is probably alive and a male Jew?

Jan 28, 1999 / David Wallis

A Cold War Over the Cold War? A Cold War Over the Cold War?

Yale University Press's Annals of Communism series, begun in 1995, is among the most ambitious and influential scholarly undertakings to address the historical role of Communi...

Jan 28, 1999 / Column / Eric Alterman

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