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Vol. 059 Issue 010 (October 1 1995)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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EDITOR'S NOTE
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Rothschild, Matthew
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EDITOR'S NOTE Matthew Rothschild Box Scores One of the real pleasures of being a magazine editor is to get to see great books before anyone else. Every day here we receive four or five review...
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HONEST LIVING
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Kroninger, Stephen
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HONEST LIVING · Stephen Kroninger "my stumble—and it could do me in, I know—will only come if I lose my cool. I haven't yet, and I won't." — BOB ...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS to the Editor Bosnia Redux I agree with you: if Erwin I Knoll was still with us he would have unequivocally rejected violence as a means to peace in Yugoslavia. It is surprising to see at...
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NEEDLEPOINT
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Colescott, Warrington
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NEEDLEPOINT* Warrington...
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COMMNET
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Comment Creeping Progress for Women Seventy-five years ago, women in the United States finally won the right to vote, and in the last Presidential election, women cast 54 percent of the ballots....
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NO COMMENT
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NO COMMENT Entrepreneurial Spirit A book advertised in the Hyperion fall 1995 catalogue: Jesus, CEO: "Following the example of Jesus—a 'CEO' who took a disorganized 'staff of twelve and built a...
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OFF THE MAP
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Durst, Will
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OFF THE MAP Will Durst Common Ground In 1950, perhaps under Orson Welles's porch, scientists discovered a mutant obese mouse. Forty-five years later, they managed to isolate the gene this mouse...
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ON THE LINE
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ON THE LINE Scotland's Political Bard New York City "Anybody who's working-class who's not a socialist shouldn't be allowed out of the house with money in their pockets," Scottish gui-\ >7 tarist...
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PUNDIT WATCH
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Douglas, Susan
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PUNDIT WATCH Susan Douglas Snide Celebrations The last weekend in August marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of the ratification of women's suffrage, and the twenty-fifth anniversary of the...
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CLASS NOTES
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Reed, Adolph Jr.
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CLASS NOTES Adolph Reed Jr. Martyrs and False Populists In desperate times we strain to find something to celebrate. There is an understandable tendency to romanticize the oppressed, and to grasp...
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JUST INSIDE THE DOOR
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Jordan, June
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JUST INSIDE THE DOOR June Jordan My Mess, and Ours Books and papers no longer pretended to pile up. Every surface stunned me with too many questions. My house was a mess. I decided to withdraw....
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Poverty's Children
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KOZOL, JONATHAN
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Poverty's Children Growing up in the South Bronx BY JONATHAN KOZOL The Number Six train from Manhattan to the South Bronx makes nine stops in the eighteen-minute ride between East 59th Street and...
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Attack of the Republican Governors
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NICHOLS, JOHN
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Attack of ^the Republican Governors 'The slick, the cruel, and the bought' BY JOHN NICHOLS Meet Kirk Fordice—Republican governor. Shortly after taking office several years ago, Mississippi's...
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BURMA in Chains
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MILLER, BRAD
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BURMA in Chains U.S. companies profit from slavery BY BRAD MILLER The Border Area Development Program is close to reaching the goals set forth under the Master Plan," drones a wax-like figure on...
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Winona LaDuke
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PERKINSON, SONYA PAUL AND ROBERT
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Winona LaDuke BY SONYA PAUL AND ROBERT PERKINSON Winona LaDuke first spoke before the United Nations when she was only eighteen years old. In the nearly two decades that...
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FURTHER COMMENT
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Ehrenreich, Barbara
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FURTHER COMMENT Barbara Ehrenreich The Age Factor Is Dole Too Old for the Job?" demanded the cover of last week's Time magazine. Not is he too calculating, embittered, or conservative—but is he...
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BOOKS:A System of Revenge
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Harvey, Miles
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BOOKS A System of Revenge Crime and the Politics of Hysteria: How the Willie Horton Story Changed American Justice by David C. Anderson Times Books. 291 pages. $25.00. by Miles Harvey Afew...
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The Blessed Peacemakers
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Lynd, Staughton Lynd and Alice
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The Blessed Peacemakers Nonviolence in America: A Documentary History by Staughton Lynd and Alice Lynd Orbis Books. 530 pages. $45.00 cloth; $25.00 paper. In the courses on nonviolence that I've...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Dulcet Tones and Grand Plans When last we left that merry band of Republican brothers in Congress, they were de-regulating shit on beef. They have since gone on to relax...
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