SUSAN SONTAG died yesterday — She was a towering public intellectual who had the courage to test the limits of coventional thought and to challenge both the Right and the Left. We’ll have comment from STEVE WASSERMAN, editor of the Los Angles Times Book Review. Read Steve Wasserman’s obit in the LA Times. LISTEN TO [...]
KATHA POLLITT, columnist for The Nation, asks “how long did it take Republicans to write their thank-you note to the Christian right?” Answer: “About five minutes.” Katha recommends supporting the National Network of Abortion Funds, www.nnaf.org. Plus: in the wake of John Kerry’s shattering defeat, it’s once again the labor movement that has plunged itself [...]
AMOS OZ, the Israeli peace activist and novelist, says there is good news in the mideast: “the vast majority of the Israeli Jews and the vast majority of the Palestinian Arabs know now that in the end of the day, there is going to be a two-state solution.” His amazing new book, A Tale of [...]