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Where They Call Each Other ‘Brother’ SAMUEL GOLDMAN The statistics would be shocking if their impact were not dulled by repetition. Record drug-overdose deaths. Mounting crime,...

SHORT TAKE (October 2004)

a right to abortion and against it, taking account of facts on the ground like Roe and Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence, and grappling with what Rawls called "the fact of reasonable pluralism."...

Commander in waiting Wesley Clark answers the call (October 2003)

Wilson Carey McWilliams COMMANDER IN WAITING General Clark enters the race The shine is off the Bush presidency, although George W. still has to be the favorite for 2004. The numbers tell us that...

What Liberal Media? by Eric Alterman (May 2003)

'WE REPORT. AND WE DECIDE' What Liberal Media? The Truth about Bias and the News Eric Alterman Basic Pool, $25. 322pp. Wilson Carey McWilliams The belief that the media are decisively liberal...

Shell game (February 2003)

Wilson Carey McWilliams SHELL CAME Bush's domestic agenda The State of the Union message, a grand pulpit, was bound to give the president a lift, but it hasn't quieted the murmur of disquiet....

On Two Wings by Michael Novak (February 2002)

BOOKS One nation, including God On Two Wings Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding Michael Novak Encounter Books, $23.95, 229 pp Wilson Carey McWilllams Michael Novak is an...

POLITICS AFTER SEPTEMBER 11: Americans are eager to share the burdens, not just the benefits of democracy (December 2001)

POLITICS AFTER SEPTEMBER I I Domestic & foreign affairs at odds Wilson Carey NcWilliams Before September 11, the Bush administration was in the doldrums and sliding a bit in the polls. Its...

Split down the middle (December 2000)

That our politics is increasingly dominated by money is no...

Campaign 2000 (September 2000)

ed by the impeachment disaster about the limits of its power, ...

Primary lessons Back to where we started SHORT TAKE (March 2000)

war situation has merely been restored. The hope that Sarajevo would provide the model for the rest of the Moslem- Croat Federation of Bosnia, not to speak of the Republika Srpska, has...

BILL BRADLEY'S MAGIC (October 1999)

BILL BRADLEY'S MAGIC It's not just hoop dreams Wilson Carey NcWilliams Bill Bradley is running ahead of Al Gore in New Hampshire and New York, looking more and more like a candidate with a...

WHO GOT IMPEACHED?: Clinton has been lucky in his enemies. (February 1999)

WHO GOT IMPEACHED? Assessing the political damage Wilson Carey MC Williams ashington's longest-running show has finally W come to a close, and almost no one will miss...

Gingrich Out (November 1998)

Wilson Carey McWilliams GIMGHICH @gT Democrats not quite in emocrats are still dancing, but deep down they know that they didn't win in 1998, although the Republicans surely lost. There are...

FALLOUT FROM THE CLINTON CAPERS (October 1998)

FALLOUT FROM THE CLINTON CAPERS A bleak outlook for the Democrats Wilson Carey McWilliams he elections of 1998 look to be bad news for the Democrats and worse for the country. Democratic...

The Presidency At Risk (July 1998)

THE PRESIDENCY AT RISK We need a grown-up Wilson Carey McWilliams olitically, the president is in pretty good shape. Vulnerable, Bill Clinton surely is: the voters aren't much inclined to...

Big Trouble (January 1998)

The r e a l t r i a l of the century Wilson Carey McWilliams prize-winning reporter, the late Anthony Lukas had a determination to get the story with all its complexities and ambiguities, a...

The One and the Many by Martin E Marty The New Golden Rule by Amitai Etzioni (August 1997)

TIES THAT ALMOST BIND The One and the Nany America's Struggle for the Common Good Martin E. Marty The New Golden Rule Community and Morality in Democratic Society Amitai Etzioni Wilson Carey...

What we voted for (December 1996)

Wilson Carey McWilliams WHAT WE VOTED FOR Ambivalence, anxiety, & gridlock In 1996, most voters didn't like the Congress or trust the president, but they reelected both. Ambivalence is the name of...

Clinton's re-election It's not over till it's over, said the sage Yogi Berra On the 1996 presidential campaign, our author dissents (October 1996)

Wilson Carey McWilliams CLINTON'S RE-ELECTION The 'X' factor The presidential race will get tighter, especially when the polls begin to limit themselves to likely voters, but for practical...

THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE Republicans chose a dead-safe candidate in Robert Dole Can he make it to the finish line? (April 1996)

THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE Dole, like Clinton, out of the loop Wilson Carey N c W i 11 i a m s Hfter an anxious month or two, the Republican party is right where most of its leaders wanted it to be:...

In Good Hands by Charles Fish (November 1995)

AFTER THEY'VE SEEN PAREE In Good Hands The Keeping of a Family Farn Charles Fish Farnr, Straus and Ciroux. $21,229 pp. Wilson Carey Mc.Williams brance, she is serene in her belief in human...

The Populist Persuasion, by Michael Kazin: (June 1995)

BOOKS The old populism vs. the new THE POPULIST PERSUASION An American History Michael Kazin Basic Books, $24, 381 pp. Wilson Carey McWilliams Populism, in Michael Kazin's analysis, is not a...

Can Republicans govern? (December 1994)

ELECTION '94 CAN REPUBLICANS GOVERN? NOT THE WAY THEY CAMPAIGNED ven a Jeremiah might have found the elections of 1994 a bit much. There were scattered consolations: some Republican...

Clear the decks (October 1994)

CLEAR THE DECKS CAMPAIGN '94: THE POLITICAL STORM AHEAD WILSON CAREY Me WILLIAMS Maybe along with the World Series we ought to cancel the elections on November 8. The Democrats, sure losers,...

Summer '94 The state of politics (August 1994)

SUMMER '94: THE STATE OF POLITICS SLOUCHING TOWARD NOVEMBER WILSON CAREY Me WILLIAMS ohtically, this is a summer of discontents. Most Americans seem irritated by politics—Congressman Bill...

The Constitution in the Courts, Michael J. Perry (July 1994)

TOUGH READ, GOOD SENSE THE CONSTITUTION IN THE COURTS Law or Politics? Michael J. Perry Oxford University Press, $35, 277 pp. Wilson Carey McWilliams In contemporary intellectual...

The Debate on the Constitution (December 1993)

BOOKS In the beginnin9 came the words he ratification of the United States Constitution was the result of a remarkably civil tumult, the occasion for grand argument and great politics....

Clinton's new political geography (April 1993)

"one agrees to look closely and with goodwill at the values and in French Catholicism in light of the above, one may say that principles that structure our contemporary world, he will...

The End of Equality (October 1992)

The true iriend of equality ickey Kaus, an editor of The New Republic with a basket of other credits in political journalism, is one of our better gadflies, nipping American liberals into...

What Clinton should do (July 1992)

CAMPAIGN '92 WHAT CLINTON SHOULD DO LET DEMOCRATS BE DEMOCRATS he Democrats still have a chance in 1992, but this year's production of their quadrennial follies has already used its quota of...

Mystic Chords of Memory (April 1992)

BOOKS Memory & redemption MYSTIC CHORDS OF MEMORY Michael Kammen Alfred A. Knopf, $40, 864 pp. Wilson Carey McWilliams Michael Kammen has written invaluable books, almost a dozen all told,...

Poverty and Compassion (February 1992)

WHEN EVERYONE WAS A LIBERAL POVERTY AND COMPASSION The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians Gertrude Himmelfarb Knopf, $30, 475 pp. Wilson Carey McWilliams For centuries, the poor...

Why Amricans Hate Politics (May 1991)

place--we are replaceable. Is this how we should think of new life? Where have Gordon's "irreplaceable fiches" gone? In fact, the sexual relationship between men and women is asymmetrical....

The True and Only Heaven (April 1991)

that I press down on for conviction hardly tempts me to credit it. In that hard singing school of Irish poets, Heaney has learned all the lessons. He was professor of poetry at Oxford for good...

Pledging Allegiance (February 1991)

slopes; the familiar, homely, sight of rural Ireland. On the other side of the tough, to the north, the taller, more impressive Mourne Mountains hunch their dark, rounded shoulders down towards...

The Grand Failure: (May 1986)

THE BODY IS STILL WARM THE GRAND FAILURE: The Birth and Death of Communism in the Twentieth Century Zbigniew Brzezinski Charles Scribner's Sons, $19.95, 278 pp. Wilson Carey Me...

A republic of couch potatoes: (March 1989)

A REPUBLIC OF COUCH POTATOES THE MEDIA SHRIVEL THE ELECTORATE WILSON CAREY McWILLIAMS The election of 1988 sent an urgent signal that something is wrong with the political soul of American...

What will Jackson do?: (September 1988)

POLITICS FOR THE LONG HAUL WHAT WILL JACKSON DO? THE PARADOXES OF SUCCESS Prophet or specter, Jesse Jackson will shadow the Democrats into the next century. He was the dominating presence in...

The Needs of Strangers/Exodus and Revolution (June 1985)

Books: THE FUTURE IN OUR PAST IN Plato's Laws, it is an Athenian stranger who teaches that friendship is the standard for the best political society, but modern states, Michael Ignatieff...

Reagan Republicanism (May 1981)

CONSERVATIVE VISIONS & AMERICAN REALITIES. 2 Reagan Republicanism WILSON CAREY McWILLIAMS I Tis SURELY a sign of the times that Ronald Reagan, by his own admission, voted for Roosevelt all four...

THE SADAT INITIATIVE (December 1977)

it doesn't much matter what the cheerleader states, such as Libya and Algeria do or say. Jordan has always been a reluctant participant in the wars, sometimes an abstainer, having learned early...

DOWN WITH THE PRIMARIES (July 1976)

DOWN WITH THE PRIMARIES WILSON CAREY McWILLIAMS This year, the Presidential election will be an anticlimax. The primaries have settled it in advance. Jimmy Carter, barely a national figure when...

MR. NIXON IN PEACE AND WAR (November 1973)

MR. NIXON IN PEACE AND WAR WILSON CAREY McWILLIAMS Militarily, the Fourth Arab-Israeli War was a straightforward affair. The only surprise was the tactical advantage the Egyptians and...

THE PATH OF PEKING (August 1971)

NIXON A SINISTRA THE PA TH TO PEKING The Administration's policy of seeking normal diplo- matic relations with China is so obviously sensible and so long overdue that most Americans will...

FROM HERE TO '72: THE YEAR OF THE LOSERS (November 1970)

FROM HERE TO '72 THE YEAR OF THE LOSERS LIBERALISM HAS FAILED TO PROVIDE THE 'NEW POLITICS' WHICH AMERICA DEMANDS AND DESPERATELY NEEDS-A POLITICS OF DIGNITY WILSON CAREY McWILLIAAIS, HENRY...

AFTER VIETNAM, WHAT? (March 1969)

WILLIAM PFAFF WILLIAM V. SHANNON JEREMY J . STONE CARL OGLESBY WILSON CAREY McWILLIAMS STANLEY HOFFMANN AFTER VIETNAM, WHAT? William P f a f f 'Like i m p e r i a l Germany, we a r e t o n e...

The Same Two Nations (November 1968)

AFTER THE ELECTION THE SAME TWO NATIONS WILSON CAREY MeWILLIAMS (Continued/rom/font cover) For Democrats, this campaign was a loser from the beginning, which makes it regrettable that 1968...

PRESERVING DEMOCRACY, C.I.A. STYLE (March 1967)

'WE WERE USED' PRESERVING DEMOCRACY9 C.I.A. STYLE During the past fifteen years we and hundreds of other and with students abroad. We saw the responsibility of students in the United States...

ENDING THE COLD WAR (January 1967)

ENDING THE COLD WAR Vietnam need not slow the thaw WILSON CAREY McWILLIAMS The dependence of Hanoi on the Soviet Union is likely to grow greater the longer the war in Vietnam continues. To...

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