Contents

• Foreword / Gore Vidal
• Prez V. Uptight Re: Boldness Gap 1/1/90 / Douglas McGrath
• Michael Harrington, Socialist 1/8-15/90 / Cornel West
• Time for Our Sinatra Doctrine 2 /12/90 / Carlos Fuentes
• Out of the Mouth of Babes: Child Abuse and the Abuse of Adults 2/12/90 / Alexander Cockburn
• Bad Day in Pleasantville 5/7/90 / Benjamin H. Cheever
• Break up the Blocs in Europe 8/13-20/90 / E. P. Thompson
• Notes on Our Patriarchal State 8/27/90-9/3/90 / Gore Vidal
• Let ‘Em Vote for "None of the Above" 9/10/ 90 / Micah L. Sifry
• Embargoed Literature 9/17/90 / Edward W. Said
• Wild at Heart 9/17/90 / Stuart Klawans - - High and Low at MoMA 11/26/90 / Arthur C. Danto
• The Priest and His People 12/24/90 / Amy Wilentz
• The Rise of Louis Farrakhan Part One: All for one and None for All: The Rise of Louis Farrakhan Part Two: 1/21-28/91 / Adolph Reed, Jr.
• Beating about Executive Privilege 2/25/91 / Richard Howard
• Choice Can Save Public Education 3/4/91 / Deborah W. Meier
• Taking the Democratic Way 4/22/91 / Mary Kaldor
• The Loss 7/15-22/91 / Yevgeny Yevtushenko - - Three Days That Shook the Kremlin 9/9/91 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
• Cannon to the Right of Me … 9/23/91 / Katha Pollitt
• The Paperbacking of Publishing 10/7/91 / Ted Solotaroff
• The Perils of the New Nationalism 11/4/ 91 / Eric Hobsbawm
• Clinton and Rickey Ray Rector 3/2/92 / Christopher Hitchens
• Pearl 3/30/92 / James Merrill
• The Gulf War as Total Television 5/11/92 / Tom Engelhardt
• The Karma Ran over My Dogma 5/18/92 / Clancy Sigal
• Bad Bears News - Exchange 5/25/92 / William Seagraves and Andrew Kopkind
• In LA, Burning All Illusions 6/1/92 / Mike Davis
• Emergency Room (Turnpike, Anywhere, U.S.A.) 6/15/92 / Mona Van Duyn
• A Few Kind Words for Liberalism 9/28/92 / Philip Green
• Notes from Another Country 9/14/ 92 / Molly Ivins
• The Character of Presidents 11/9/92 / E. L. Doctorow
• November First 2/22/93 / Charles Simic - - Women Hide Behind a Wall of Silence 3/1/93 / Slavenka Drakulic
• Sisters under the Skin - Exchange 3/8/93 / Jan Clausen, Barrie Karp and Ynestra King / [et al.]
• A Guide to the Ghettos 3/15/93 / Camilo Jose Vergara
• Trouble Still in Forrest City 3/22/93 / Robert Scheer
• The Gay Moment 5/3/93 / Andrew Kopkind
• The Truth about the A.B.A. 6/7/93 / Elisabeth Sifton
• The Identity Politics in New York City 6/21/93 / Michael Tomasky
• Cesar’s Ghost 7/26/-8/2/93 / Frank Bardacke
• Giving The Devil His Due - Exchange 8/23-30/93 / Salman Rushdie and Alexander Cockburn
• Words Are All I Have - Exchange 12/ 27/93 / Laura Flanders, Cass R. Sunstein and Lindsay Waters / [et al.]
• The Age of Reason, 1794-1994 2/21/94 / Ring Lardner, Jr.
• Zapatist A! The Phoenix Rises 3/28/ 94 / Paco Ignacio Taibo II
• Land of the Dead 4/25/94 / John Pilger
• Confessions of a Tobacco Fiend 4/25/94 / John Leonard
• A Deserter from Death 6/20/94 / Daniel Singer
• A Socialism of the Skin 7/4/94 / Tony Kushner
• Battues 7/4/94 / W. S. Merwin
• Behind Haiti’s Paramilitaries 10/24/94 / Allan Nairn
• 1953 1/2/95 / Philip Levine
• Character in Biography 2/13/95 / Carol Brightman
• Racism has Its Privileges 3/27/95 / Roger Wilkins
• One Violent Crime 4/3/95 / Bruce Shapiro
• Allegory of the Cave - Exchange 4/24/95 / Arthur C. Danto, Clayton Eshleman and Alexander Cockburn
• Buying His Way to a Media Empire 5/29/95 / Robert Sherrill
• Hiring Quotas for White Males Only 6/26/95 / Eric Foner
• To Newt on Art 7/31-8/7/95 / Arthur Miller
• Is There Method in His Madness? 9/25/95 / Kirkpatrick Sale
• Different Drummer Please, Marchers! 10/30/95 / Patricia J. Williams
• The Ballad of the Skeletons 11/27/95 / Allen Ginsberg - - Inside the Butts Box: The Cigarette Papers 1/1/96 / Jon Wiener
• Hip is Dead 4/1/96 / Tom Frank
• Does Maureen Dowd Have an Opinion? 5/13/96 / Susan Faludi
• How News Becomes Opinion, and Opinion Off-limits 6/24/96 / Salman Rushdie
• Centrism, Populist Style 10/7/96 / Richard Parker
• ‘Transition’ or Tragedy? 12/30/96 / Stephen F. Cohen
• Hans Christian Ostro 12/30/96 / Agha Shahid Ali - - Journals of the Plague Years 5/12/97 / Edmund White
• Heart of Whiteness 10/6/97 / Eric Alterman
• When Government Gets Mean: Confessions of a Recovering Statist 11/17/97 / Barbara Ehrenreich
• Is the Left Nuts? (Or Is It Me?) 11/17/97 / Michael Moore
• First Projects, Then Principles 12/22/97 / Richard Rorty
• Michael Moore’s Mailbag - Exchange 1/5/98 / Kelly Candaele, Terence M. Ripmaster and Ellen Frank / [et al.]
• "66 Things to Think About When Flying into Reagan National Airport" 3/2/ 98 / David Corn
• General Pinochet Still Rules: 25 Years after Allende 3/23/98 / Marc Cooper
• Some People 3/23/98 / Wislawa Szymborska
• We Need a Radical Left 6/29/98 / Ellen Willis
• The Devil’s Ball 7/8/98 / Yusef Komunyakaa
• Dialectical McCarthyism (s) 7/20/98 / Victor Navasky
• Unchained Melody 5/11/98 / Marshall Berman
• Performance and Reality: Race, Sports and the Modern World 8/10-17/98 / Gerald Early
• All the World’s a Ball 8/10/17/98 / Eduardo Galeano
• Writing Robeson 12/28/98 / Martin Duberman
• Historic Question Department, 11th Grade Division 1/11/99 / Calvin Trillin
• The False Dawn of Civil Society 2/22/99 / David Rieff
• Sextuple Jeopardy 2 /22/99 / Jonathan Schell
• NATO: at 50, It’s Time to Quit 5/10/99 / Benjamin Schwarz and Christopher Layne
• Unfinished Business: Clinton’s Lost Presidency 2/14/2000 / William Greider