Society

A Bend in the Color Line A Bend in the Color Line

Policy talk about a racialized "underclass" rests on social science research that often reproduces notions of racial difference, in an enormous tautology.

Jan 28, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Gerard Fergerson

Justice Over-Decorated Is Justice Denied Justice Over-Decorated Is Justice Denied

Chief Justice Rehnquist now presides. He rules the chamber that decides If Clinton should remain or go. This role's important, that we know.

Jan 21, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Media Starvation Diet Media Starvation Diet

All during the year 1984, those of us with firsthand experience in Africa knew that drought and famine were cutting across vast swaths of the continent.

Jan 21, 1999 / Books & the Arts / James North

Friends, Romans, Countrymen Friends, Romans, Countrymen

The networks are busy interviewing everyone with a law degree about what to expect from the impeachment trial of President Clinton.

Jan 21, 1999 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

The People vs. Larry Flynt? The People vs. Larry Flynt?

I didn't realize how much I was counting on Larry Flynt until I noticed I had spent Monday evening trying to find on the Web or TV a report of the much-anticipated news conf...

Jan 14, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Indiana Jones’s Temple of Doom Indiana Jones’s Temple of Doom

The recent arrest in Israel of eight apocalyptic cult members, who reportedly planned to take their own lives at the millennium or provoke authorities into killing them, rev...

Jan 14, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Bettina Drew

Narnia Born Again Narnia Born Again

For 300 years, Christopher Wren's Sheldonian Theater has been the center of ceremonial life at Oxford.

Jan 14, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Michael Joseph Gross

Floating Like a Butterfly… Floating Like a Butterfly…

In October in Las Vegas, Mike Tyson went before the Nevada Athletic Commission to ask it to reinstate his boxing license, which had been suspended after Tyson took a bite out o...

Jan 7, 1999 / Books & the Arts / David Levi Strauss

…Stinging Like a Bee …Stinging Like a Bee

Anyone with first- or even secondhand knowledge of the real-life subject must have wondered what strain of myopia possessed those producing the 1991 TV miniseries Separate bu...

Jan 7, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour

Immaculate Contraception Immaculate Contraception

Enter the glass doors at 222 West 14th Street in New York City, and the chaos of traffic horns and tire-screeches, jackhammers and concentrated humanity recedes into a hush.

Jan 7, 1999 / Feature / Jennifer Baumgardner

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