In These Times

1.6 If This Oldsmobile's A Rockin'...You might say that Norm Coleman Sr. is the beau ideal of the Greatest Generation. Landed at Normandy during the Big One, fought the Battle of the Bulge, came home and built a business empire. He's the kind of American...

IN NOVEMBER 2005 HILLARY Rodham Clinton sent out a fundraising letter to her constituents. "Part of my job is being a good listener," she wrote, going on to describe all the good listening she does as the junior senator from New York. She concluded,...

How the canvassing industry is burning out progressive youthTHERE'S A WORD THAT gets tossed around in canvassing offices to describe people like Christian Miller: "scrappy." That's not because of his skinny frame and sparse, wiry chin-scrabble. Rather,...

WHILE NEW MEXICO'S landscape may make the state the Land of Enchantment, its rapidly growing rates of incarceration have been utterly disenchanting. What's worse, New Mexico is at the top of the nation's list for privatizing prisons; nearly one-half...

TO ILLUSTRATE HOW human consciousness cannot be understood solely through observable behavior, cognitive scientists came up with a thought experiment known as the "zombie problem." They defined a zombie as a mindless drone, a mere automaton, but one...

Lasch RevisitedSilja J. A. Talvi, "Narcissists 'R' Us" (August), doesn't seem to know who Christopher Lasch was or what he was about. He was a historian and not, as Talvi says, a sociologist. More important, Talvi almost totally misunderstands what Lasch...

OVER THE FIRST weekend of August, more squirrels were scampering through the Quads at the University of Chicago than students or professors. But from Aug. 4 to 7, students adorned with political pins and T-shirts transformed the drab front hall of Cobb...

Sound Byte ScienceIn July, Bush's veto of a bill on stem-cell funding stirred up a flurry of high-profile science news stories. For the most part, however, science gets the shaft: on average, science stories make up only two percent of network news coverage....

The WTO model has collapsed. What's next?ELITE EDITORIALISTS AND FREE-TRADE devotees gnashed their teeth in distress when the latest round of World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations collapsed in late July. But amidst the hand-wringing, many advocates...

North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan is a popular Democrat from a very "red" rural state. He's remained a voter favorite not because he's tried to split the difference with Republicans or suck up to the Washington power structure, but because of the populist...

BOOKSWhite BlightIN 1957, AS the civil rights movement gained steam, the conservative National Review opined: "the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary for it to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas...