| BOOK REVIEWS:
review of "The Humbling" by Philip Roth,
January 27, 2010
review of "The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism" by
Walter Laqueur, March 8, 2007
review of "Are Men Necessary?" by Maureen Dowd,
December 8, 2005
review of "Where Have All the Intellectuals
Gone?" by Frank Furedi, Summer 2005
review of "Politically Incorrect
Guide to American History" by Thomas Woods, March 20, 2005
review of "Freethinkers" by
Susan Jacoby, Winter 2005
review of "Dude, Where's My
Country?" by Michael Moore, Nov. 16, 2003
review of "The Devil Wears Prada" by Lauren Weisberger,
June 11, 2003
review of "The Reckless Mind" by Mark
Lilla, October 2002
review of "Adam's Curse" by Dennis
Donogue, Summer 2002
review of "The Hip Hop Generation" by Bakari
Kitwana, June 6, 2002
review of "Jefferson's Pillow" by Roger
Wilkins, April 2002
review of "Wide as the Waters" by Benson
Bobrick, December 2001
review of "The Death of Adam" by Marilyn
Robinson, Winter 2001
review of "The Trouble with Principle" by Stanley
Fish, July 2000
review of "The Schools Our Children Deserve" by
Alfie Kohn, January 2000
review of "Aliens in America" by Jodi
Dean, March 1999
LONGER ARTICLES:
"On The Soul" January/February 2011
"I, Conservative" 3/13/08
"The War on Islamic Terror: Four Key Concepts"
1/11/08
"Can Humanists Talk to Postmodernists?" Summer
2006
"Talking About God" March/April 2005
"Did the World Have a Beginning?"
Jan/Feb 2004
"Keeping it Real: Hip Hop Politics"
1/17/03
"Liberty, Logic and
Abortion" June/July 2002
"The Giuliani Phenomenon"
1/2/02
COLUMNS BY DATE:
"Rock and Roll Hall of Lame" 3/14/11
"Erasure: A Story" February 2011
"The Turkish Bath" 12/1/10
"Where are the Conservative
Novelists" 11/19/10
"Symbolic Victories" 8/31/10
"Contra Fabrizio: A Paean to My New
Novel" 7/30/10
"The Poet Versus the Prophet"
5/14/10
"Pity Part Logic" 4/6/10
"Haiti and Political Hay" 1/15/10
"Michael Vick for the EPA" 10/30/09
"The Wise Man's Burden: On the
Burden of Proof" 10/23/09
"Who Is College Material" 9/28/09
"Hip Hop's Intellectual Strikes Again" 9/14/09
"The Troubling Psychology of Health Care" 9/3/09
"Come Again, Ma'am?" 7/27/09
"The Jackson Trajectory" 7/9/09
"Against Judicial Empathy" 6/10/09
"Danner's Fury: Torture and Certainty" 4/6/09
"Alec Baldwin: Right on Taxes" 3/6/09
"Yeah, Yeah, Yes" 2/9/09
"Democracy and Disproportionality" 1/22/09
"The Upside of Obama" 1/5/09
"Revenge of Che" 12/19/08
"Unqualified: Let's Talk About Joe Biden"
10/28/08
"Palin's Moment" 9/30/08
"Bush Hatred: The Sequel" 8/7/08
"The Necessary Religion: On the Fourth of July"
7/3/08
"The Threat: War-Gaming the Next Attack" 6/18/08
"No Recount on Reality" 5/23/08
"The Grim Truth on Gitmo" 5/12/08
"Wright Makes Wrong" 5/2/08
"Cognitive Gap: In Defense of
Obama" 3/24/08
"Terror and Fairness" 3/3/08
"When Enough Rope Isn't" 1/23/08
"The Final Piece of the Puzzle" 11/15/07
"Torturous Questions" 11/12/07
"The Latest, Greatest Body Count" 11/6/07
"It's One War" 9/21/07
"Bad Newz: On Whoopi Goldberg and Michael Vick"
9/7/07
"Democratic Sanity Check" 8/31/07
"The Imus Transgression" 8/20/07
"The Ultimate WMD" 8/7/07
"The Truth about Howard Zinn" 7/31/97
"The Encounter" 6/07
"Hope I Retire Before I Get Old" 5/3/07
"The St. Petersburg Declaration" 4/20/07
"The Odds" 3/26/07
"Hillary's Hurdle" 2/27/07
"The Safe Faith to Insult" 2/27/07
"Iraq's Armchair Quarterbacks" 1/19/07
"November Paranoia" 11/16/06
"Osama Weighs in: An Open Letter" 10/31/06
"Recruitment Tools" 9/28/06
"Screwing Up: How Parents Fail Students" 9/11/06
"Two Crises and One Obscenity" 7/21/06
"Liberalism on the Couch" 6/14/06
"The Politics of Pity: On the
Coulter Controversy" 6/8/06
"Not a Decider: the Times's Non-Story"
5/16/06
"Containment and Context" 5/15/06
"Killa Satire: Free Speech on Campus" 4/24/06
"Supply Side 101" 4/17/06
"The Poli-Math Challenge" 4/4/06
"Now We Know: On FISA Warrants" 3/28/06
"Hollywood Heroism" 3/6/06
"You Go, Girl!: Hillary Clinton and Race"
1/27/06
"Stalinism's Bad Rap and Assorted MLA Hijinks"
1/9/06
"Race, Reason and Reaching Out"
12/22/05
"Rome: An Appreciation" 11/23/05
"Two Roads Diverged . . . " 11/14/05
"Arizona Segregation" 10/25/05
"Millions More Misconceptions"
10/17/05
"Hurricane Katrina: Just Asking" 9/7/05
"Cindy Sheehan, Unplugged" 8/29/05
"Barbarella's Back" 8/4/05
"The Scandal Behind the Rove Scandal"
7/20/05
"Poetic Evening" 6/30/05
"Whose Insurgency?" 6/8/05
"The Meaning of Mainstream"
5/27/05
"Back to Basics: Grammar Quiz for High School
Seniors" 5/6/05
"Condi and History" 4/27/05
"Fear and Fanaticism at the New York Times"
4/8/05
"Transient Certainties" 3/10/05
"Ward Churchill: Symptom, Not Disease" 2/9/05
"Snubbing Che" 2/1/05
"Democratic Good Will" 1/27/05
"Torturous Decisions" 1/7/05
"On the Death of Susan Sontag" 1/3/05
"Hip
Hop Hooray" 12/15/04
"The Kerry Paradox" 10/20/04
"The Derrida Achievement" 10/14/04
"Kerry Courts the Black Vote" 10/12/04
"Man With a Plan" 10/4/04
"Tin Foil Hat Democrats" 10/4/04
"The Right War, The Right Place, The Right Time"
9/22/04
"From A to F: On Student English Skills" 9/14/04
"Cowards End" 9/7/04
"Malaprop Hypocrisy" 8/24/04
"Liberal Orthodoxy" 8/24/04
"The War on Terror: Four Key Concepts"
8/17/04
"Stone Cold" 8/9/04
"The Logic of Bush Bashing"
8/5/04
"Def Poetry: On the Matter of Black Urban Culture"
7/27/04
"Impeachable Sources, Impeachable Offenses" 7/23/04
"Kansas Kondescension: What's the Matter with Kansas?"
7/12/04
"That Jeopardy Guy" 7/2/04
"Coalition of the Wild-Eyed: On the Decline of
Political Discourse" 7/1/04
"More on Moore" 6/22/04
"Howelling at the Moon" 6/3/04
"Sontag
Logic: On Sontag on the Prison Photos" 5/28/04
"Black
Authenticity: Will Black Leaders Ever Grow Up?" 5/20/04
"Why
Conservatives Should Support Gay Marriage"
5/17/04
"Secret Lives of Moms: On Mother's Day"
5/10/04
"Brief Interlude: On Presidential Daily
Briefings" 4/14/04
"Unreasonable Art: On Christo at the Met"
4/8/04
"Condi's Moment" 3/31/04
"Wagging the President" 3/30/04
"Waxing Poetic: MoDo Smooches Kerry" 3/10/04
"Tuskegee Revisited"
2/11/04
"Academic
Anti-Bushism" 1/15/04
"Horn Swaggled: On the
Nature of Sportsmanship" 12/29/03
"Tipping Points in the War on Terror" 11/11/03
"Mumia
Muddle: An American Travesty in Paris" 10/16/03
"Race, Guns . . . and Hollow Gestures" 10/6/03
"Chirac: C'est La Vie"
9/26/03
"Rap: Blood on Blood"
9/15/03
"Lessons from the Schoolyard"
9/05/03
"Graying the Issues: On the California Recall"
8/25/03
"Norman Spectacle: On Norman Mailer, et al,"
7/24/03
"Snooping for Diversity: the Doggfather Goes Wild,"
7/23/03
"Supreme Infantilization: the Court's Affirmative Action Ruling,"
7/17/03
"Clinton Lit 101" 6/24/03
"Willful Ignorance,"
4/23/03
"Poem: Lawrence Ferlinghetti is Against the War with Iraq,"
4/15/03
"Antiwar Movement: Movement or
Cult?" via Free Republic,
4/10/03
"Winding Up Matters" on the Iraqi War
4/9/2003
"Student Primer on the Iraqi War,"
3/23/03
"Minstrel Show: On Councilman Charles Barron"
3/21/03
"Bitter Taste of Academia at Citrus College,"
3/11/03
"Non-fighting Words: On Poets Against the War,"
3/7/03
"On a Human Shield,"
3/3/03
"The Antiwar Movement Comes to My 'hood"
2/24/03
"Finger-Quotin' Fools: On the Modern Language Association,"
1/30/03
"Racism and Rights"
1/28/03
"Keeping It Real: Amiri Baraka and
Newark Public Schools" 1/17/03
"Derrida, Derrida, etc."
1/16/03
"Wake Up Call: Republicans and Black Voters"
12/19/02
"Certainties and Unlikelihoods:
The Central Park Jogger Case,"
12/16/02
"The Ballet Workout"
12/6/02
"Our Lunatics and Theirs,"
12/5/02
"Eminem's Ennui"
11/25/02
"Hip Hop and the Beltway Sniper,"
10/29/02
"The Dowd Rule: Words to Read the New York Times By" 10/12/02
"Other Opiates: On Education in America,"
10/3/02
"Mideast Pipe Dreams,
8/14/02
"The Tao of Bugs Bunny"
8/5/02
"What is Racism?"
8/5/02
"Real World Security Testing"
7/24/02
"Lessons of the Daniel Pearl Video"
7/18/02
"The Black Israelites" 6/28/02
"The Burden of Proof: On Fathers
and Sons"
6/14/02
"The SAT Exam,"
5/23/02
"Mother's Day Confidential"
5/10/02
"Stupid People: On Victimhood,"
5/8/02
"Shrum Rap: Who Lost the Election?"
4/29/02
"On Being Whiteballed,"
4/24/02
"Why Profs Fear Testing,"
4/11/02
"On God: Probability and Theology" 3/29/02
"Butting Eggheads: On Postmodernism,"
3/27/02
"Cycle of Violence in the Middle East"
3/26/02
"Cheesy Times,"
3/20/02
"Brock Again for More: On David Brock"
3/4/02
"Black History Month,"
3/1/02
"Heady Times for Cop Killers"
2/27/02
"Ranking Cultures,"
2/15/02
"Enforcing Civility: On Homelessness"
1/21/02
"Leonard Jeffries Redux,"
12/18/2001
"French
Toast: On Baudrillard on Terror," 12/12/01
"All We Are Saying, Etc.: The Peace Movement,"
11/1/01
"A Serious Note on Fiction,"
10/27/01
"Bowdlerized by Microsoft" 10/23/01
"MTV's 20-Year Downhill Slide"
7/31/01
"The Bull Dyke's Petard" 6/27/01
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