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November 11, 1991
David Samuels
The Rap on Rap
The 'black music' that isn't either.
October 28, 1991
Gerald Early
Divine Punches
Muhammad Ali made every big fight into a moment of moral and political crisis in the culture.
June 17, 1991
Jacob Weisberg
Rough Trade
The sad decline of American publishing.
March 11, 1991
Irving Howe
An Exercise in Memory
Eliot and the Jews: A personal confession.
February 18, 1991
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Irving Howe
The Value of the Canon
What's wrong with “P.C.”
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January 7, 1991
Louis Menand
Life in the Stone Age
Hunter S. Thompson, Rolling Stone, and the puritanical counterculture.
December 31, 1990
James S. Henry
Why I Hate Christmas
The Grinch has it right.
December 17, 1990
Andrew Sullivan
Gay Life, Gay Death
The siege of a subculture
November 19, 1990
Christopher Lasch
The Saving Remnant
October 29, 1990
Christopher Benfey
Coming Home
A review of "Omeros" by Derek Walcott
December 18, 1989
Christopher Hope
This Is What It Was Like to Witness the Fall of the Berlin Wall
September 18, 1989
Stanley Crouch
Huey Newton, R.I.P.
August 28, 1989
Hendrik Hertzberg
What Woodstock Was Really Like
August 28, 1989
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Andrew Sullivan
Here Comes The Groom
A (conservative) case for gay marriage
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August 28, 1989
Hendrik Hertzberg
You Had To Be There
The magic of Woodstock.
April 3, 1989
Mark Hosenball
The Brothers Bush
The (rather spotty) business records of the Bush brothers, circa 1989.
March 27, 1989
Henry Fairlie
A Modest Proposal (To Mandate That All Politician Be Eunuchs)
A satire for the ages
December 26, 1988
Vint Lawrence
Eraserface
George Bush, cartoonist's nightmare.
July 18, 1988
Henry Fairlie
Henry Fairlie on What Europeans Thought of Our Revolution
It really was a shot heard round the world.
July 27, 1987
Stanley Kauffmann
Blank Cartridge
A review of Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket"

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