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Ahmadinejad's New York state of mind Ahmadinejad's New York state of mind

My time with the Iranian president this week underscored how the U.S. media has overlooked his political savvy.
  • What does it mean to be an "anti-feminist"?

    Men's rights lawyer Roy Den Hollander has just completed a trilogy of anti-feminist lawsuits. Watch out, women's studies!
  • Ahmadinejad, big man on campus

    The Iranian leader's visit to Columbia provoked outcry, support and a twist on free speech: "We're glad you're here -- so we can tell you you're an asshole."
  • What Ahmadinejad said

    The Iranian president made a controversial appearance at Columbia University on Monday; read his remarks here.
  • What does a girl have to do to get excommunicated?

    Catholic officials keep threatening to excommunicate pro-choice politicians and activists like me. I think they're bluffing, and canon law is on my side.
  • The Salon Interview: Camille Paglia

    Bad omen: Why the Columbia disaster should make Bush think twice about rushing to war with Iraq.
  • Spaced out

    Critics of manned spaceflight say the Columbia disaster means we must retreat from space. But what they're abandoning is the future.
  • Astronauts and pilots

    The shuttle -- part spacecraft, part plane -- transformed flight forever. Even tragedy can't change that.
  • First find out what happened -- then find out why

    Unlike politicians and the public, people working on the shuttle know it's still experimental, an expert on the Challenger disaster says.
  • Prof. Al's shaky debut

    In his first day teaching at Columbia, the former vice president starts out nervous -- but relaxes enough to critique the media.
  • What are we fighting for?

    Colombia's civil war puts children on the front lines.
  • Jeff Buckley: a cult in the making?

    He was an ethereal, darkly handsome singer-songwriter who died young. And that's how legends begin.
  • Hail, Metallica!

    In which a British artiste of minor repute salutes his very heavy colleagues for their intrepid bravery in suing Napster.
  • Letters to the Editor

    Is it Spike Gillespie who should be restrained? Plus: Michael Lewis' bogus attack on J-schools; art should be about seeing, not theorizing.
  • Hermaphrodites are safe in ... Colombia?

    How has a country known for its indiscriminate violence become the global haven for sexual diversity?
  • Crashing the top

    Women at elite universities may have broken the ivory ceiling, but they're still battling old-fashioned discrimination.
  • The mysteries of Bill Clinton

    Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcma Marquez compares the president's fate to that of Hester Prynne.
  • The mysteries of Bill Clinton

    Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez compares the president's fate to that of Hester Prynne.
  • Critical Mass

    Twenty Salon critics pick the year's best albums.
  • Fascism by any other name

    When conservatives try to meet at Columbia, ideologues shout them down, with the backing of the administration.
  • Bringing it all back home

    New box sets from Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen released on Columbia only confirm what collectors have known for years -- that these artists have been sitting on some of their best work (even if they didn't think so).
  • John Mellencamp

    Sharps & Flats is a daily music review in Salon Magazine
  • the boys
    in the bathhouses

    According to the "queer theorists,"
    having lots of anonymous gay sex is the answer
    to the tyranny of the normal.
    Forget that it will also kill you.
  • Mike Watt

    Sharps & Flats is a daily music review in Salon Magazine.
  • Brain Clock

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