Here's a parable about what is intellectually respectable and politically safe in this country,
and what is not. It concerns two of this country's best known public intellectuals, Edward
Said and Susan Sontag.
It's a backhanded...
01 April 2001
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Subcommandante Marcos and the Zapatistas
As the Zapatistas say, “Our struggle is yours.” As we go to press, Subcommadante Marcos and the Zapatista delegation are in Mexico City attempting to negotiate...
28 March 2001
NEW MEXICO -- Drive across the United States, mostly on Interstate 40, and you'll
have plenty of time to listen to the radio. Even more time than usual if, to take my own
situation, you're in a 1976 Ford 350 one-ton pickup, ploughing along...
21 March 2001
Before the coal industry told him to quit putting his foot in his mouth, even George W.
Bush, born and bred in a Texas oil patch, subscribed to the notion that global warming is
largely caused by the so-called "greenhouse gasses," the...
14 March 2001
The air now quivers with gloomy assessments of the secrets "compromised" by the FBI's
Robert Hanssen, a senior official who stands accused of working for the Russians since
1985.
If you believe the FBI affidavit against him filed in...
08 March 2001
A skeleton is rattling in George Will's closet. But it's difficult
to hear above the steady applause from his elite boosters inside the media
business.
Widely viewed as one of the nation's most influential journalists, Will...
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