Issue of 2004-10-18
Posted 2004-10-11
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
COMMENT/ STRETCHERS/ Hendrik Hertzberg on the Vice-Presidential debate.
HOMEWORK/ TO THE EDITOR/ Daniel Radosh on a class of gifted young letter writers.
CONTENDERS/ POST-PUNK/ Nick Paumgarten on the rocker-activist Krist Novoselic.
DEPT. OF DETRITUS/ YARD SALE/ Field Maloney on a Central Park junk convention.
THE FINANCIAL PAGE/ FREE AIR/ James Surowiecki on giving up the digital spectrum.
THE POLITICAL SCENE/ Larissa MacFarquhar/ The Pollster/ Does John Zogby know who will win the election?
THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL/ Philip Gourevitch/ Reality Check/ John Kerryís Iraq comeback.
FICTION/Rebecca Curtis/ "The Alpine Slide"
ANNALS OF THE PRESIDENCY/ Nicholas Lemann/ Remember the Alamo/ Why George W. Bush turned radical.
A REPORTER AT LARGE/ Jane Mayer/ The Money Man/ Can George Soros's millions insure the defeat of President Bush?
ON THE BALLOT/ Connie Bruck/ Hollywood Science/ Should a ballot initiative determine the fate of stem-cell research?
BOOKS BRIEFLY NOTED/ When Presidents Lie, by Eric Alterman; Perilous Times, by Geoffrey R. Stone; Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America, by George C. Edwards III; Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire, by Anne Norton.
THE CRITICS
A CRITIC AT LARGE/ Anthony Lane/ The Method President/ Ronald Reagan and the movies.
ON TELEVISION/ Nancy Franklin/ Bringing Up Bobby/ The boy who would be President.
THE ART WORLD/ Peter Schjeldahl/ True Views/ Rackstraw Downesís realism.
THE THEATRE/ John Lahr/ The Laughing Cure/ Black comedy and blackface in two Off Broadway shows.
THE CURRENT CINEMA/ Anthony Lane/ Young Men/ "P.S." and "Tarnation."
THE BACK PAGE/ Paul Slansky/ "Campaign 2004: The Quiz"
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Paul Slansky's series of quizzes on the Bush Presidency, "The __th Hundred Days," are linked on the sidebar of "Campaign 2004: The Quiz."
