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The career of the great German cultural critic Hans Magnus Enzensberger is a case study in the virtues of intellectual inconsistency.
By James Poniewozik
January 27, 1999
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The election took some of the steam out of the Washington Punditocracy's hot air balloon.
By Gary Kamiya
November 5, 1998
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The election took some of the steam out of the Washington Punditocracy's hot air balloon.
By Gary Kamiya
November 5, 1998
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Director Gary Ross fetishizes the '50s in this high-concept parable about the dangers of conformity.
By Charles Taylor
October 23, 1998
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It's a very, very merry Testimoniday in punditland, as the talking heads pick over what's left of the Bill-Monica-Ken scandal.
By James Poniewozik
August 18, 1998
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A fed-up American offers common sense to President Clinton about his upcoming grand jury showdown: Walk like a man.
By Ned Stafford
August 14, 1998
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The secret life of a scandal: Americans forgive Clinton and Lewinsky because they understand the truth about sex, lies and legal obsessions
By Steve Erickson
July 16, 1998
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'The Truman Show' is better than the facile critics who use it to denounce TV.
By Jame Poniewozik
June 10, 1998
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Peter Kurth wonders why his sister Barbara has been put on trial by the media after the arrest of Stephen Fagan, who abducted their two daughters and lived with them under a false identity for 19 years before his recent Palm Beach arrest.
By Peter Kurth
May 7, 1998
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America has a distinguished history of spreading scandalous rumors about its politicians, and the latest batch of White House gossip is nothing new.
By Jenn Shreve
May 1, 1998
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The media is the psycho-social viewmaster through which we watch our own disgraces.
By Cintra Wilson
February 10, 1998
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But first, please do fill me in on all your wonderful story ideas.
By Catherine Seipp
October 24, 1997
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Vaginal pears and iron maidens are child's play compared to the dreaded job of a family Web site copy editor.
By Matt Marinovich
August 4, 1997
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Our addiction to information is ruining our ability to think.
By David Futrelle
June 27, 1997
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You can complain all you want about sellouts, but some of the best
alternative culture our country has to offer is bought and paid for by The Man.
By Larry Smith
April 16, 1997
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While the rest of the world has moved beyond last month's cloning madness, a number of gay writers and activists have seized on Cloning Rights as the next big crusade. They're wasting their time.
By David Futrelle
April 15, 1997
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The supposedly hard-boiled press decries public cynicism. It ought to embrace it.
By Chris Lehmann
April 14, 1997
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Shove media from the clickstream cabal
By Andrew Leonard
April 6, 1997
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A veteran of America's political trenches explains why public service has become a dirty term -- and how we can clean up the system
By Fred Branfman
May 21, 1996
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How the computer trade press paves the vaporware trail
By Doug Fine
April 22, 1996
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In 1995 paranoia about the information
revolution transcended cultural debate to become a
national trauma.
By Jon Katz
December 2, 1995