Jim Kaplan
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Sin and Silence
I T IS NOT surprising that talk of sin is what we Northerners are hearing from the South this election
Pulp
Some recent observations on the media: Liberals and strategically-important southern Africa: The Rev. Rex Humbard prize for rightist propaganda goes
Part of the Way with Jimmy
E VEN IN PLATITUDE and papered-over unity, it's hard to hate the Democrats. They remind you of a doddering old,
Big Bad Wolfe
T OM WOLFE IS BACK--in this month's issue of Harper's, with a piece on the phony radicalism of the American
King Mob
F OR 200 YEARS and more the United States has been generally free of what Europeans would call "Men of
Pulp
Something should be said early on, in this newly-revived column of press clips, about the dean of press clips himself,
The Future of Spain
F ROM THE ONSET of industrialization in the late nineteenth century, Spain was the only European country where the Anarchists
Empty Victories
S HORT STORIES ARE BEST when the background can be assumed and the foreground is fleshed out. Henry James, obsessed
Labor's Love Lost
H OFFA NEVER could make the distinction, Murray Kempton wrote, between mine and thine--for all his right-wing bullshit (rapists should
Who Rules the Universities?
T HE STORY MIGHT READ BETTER as a novel, opening as it does with a scene that Sinclair Lewis would