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Eddy L. Harris
David Talbot
Does a black man have to be black? David Talbot interviews Eddy L. Harris.
SALON Daily Clicks: Newsreal
Andrew Ross
A local school district's decision to recognize "black English" as a language has created a national firestorm.
Media Circus: Can't-See TV!
Nick Gillespie
The "voluntary" TV ratings system is the thin end of the wedge. What the moralists are really after is good old-fashioned censorship.
Media Circus: Our Man in Panama
Kaitlin Quistgaard
John le Carri's new novel, a guided tour of tropical corruption in Panama, has caused a quiet fury in that country in part because it can't quite be dismissed as pure fiction.
Media Circus: The Hidden Persuader
David Futrelle
Vance Packard never got much respect during his lifetime. But his best-selling critiques of consumer capitalism and the machinations of advertising may be more relevant than ever.
Crowning glories
Anne Lamott
When you find yourself having a Bad-Hair Life, what do you do? You get yourself a new one.
Christmas Books
Katherine Whittemore
The naughty, the nice and the nauseating. Snowed in by the spawn of The Christmas Box.
Media Circus: Yo, Niccolo!
Wagner James Au
Move over, Bill Bennett. The late Tupac Shakur aka Makaveli may have given the Great Books the biggest boost since Sting discovered the Canterbury Tales.
Salon: Sharps and Flats
Charles Taylor
Media Circus: Paris When it Fizzles
Chris Lehmann
An exclusive look inside the navel of New Yorker boulevardier Adam Gopnik, the Seinfeld of public intellectuals
Mediasaurus Wrecks
Scott Rosenberg
In Michael Crichton's war on the news media, the author is his own double agent
Oedipus Wreck
Laura Miller
Laura Miller interviews James Ellroy, Salon's 1996 Best Books of the Year Winner
Salon: Sharps and Flats
Hans Eisenbeis
Are we not men? We are Harvard!
D. T. Max
How Harvard students created a new standard of manliness - and drove themselves crazy in the process.
To Borgly Go Where No One Has Gone Before
Scott Rosenborg
Part New Age gurus, part cyberpunks, "Star Trek: First Contact's" villains are the enemies we deserve.
Model Citizens
Charles Taylor
They don't get no respect. But supermodels are more than mannequins they represent the possibility of grace in a humdrum world.
Israel: Has the civil war already begun?
Jonathan Broder
The author of an award-winning new book on Zionism talks about the vision behind the Jewish state, the Palestinian question, and what William Safire and A.M. Rosenthal won't tell you.
Flowers for Alger Hiss
Dan Kennedy
What if they gave a funeral for a cold-war icon -- and no one came?
How to unify the country? Ten-HUT!
Samuel Freedman
Universal military service may be the only way to heal the wounds of a country fractured by race and class.
Geek yuks
Scott Rosenberg
Dave Barry may find a few laughs floating in cyberspace. But Scott Adams knows that real humor is grounded in human stupidity.
Uncivil disobedience
David Futrelle
Has the religious right taken leave of America -- or just its senses?
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