Email Author Ben Ehrenreich

2001 Stories by Ben Ehrenreich

• Algerian Fundamentals

  published December 20, 2001

  Silence is death And you, if you speak, you die If you are silent you die So, speak and die --Tahar... More >>

• Rolling Back the Years, or Blame It on Brokaw

  published December 20, 2001

  On September 11, as the words “Pearl Harbor” rolled off the tongue of anchor after anchor, it was hard not to detect an element of wishf... More >>

• The Million-Dollar March

  published December 13, 2001

  By Monday morning, nearly everyone on Figueroa Street would be walking briskly for capitalism, without picket signs, flags or further ado. But... More >>

• Welcome to El Al

  published September 27, 2001

  In 1997, friends living in Israel invited my girlfriend and me to spend a few weeks with them in Jerusalem. We flew from New York to Tel Aviv... More >>

• The Left Responds: Fear and Hope

  published September 27, 2001

  Last Sunday evening, about 40 local progressives gathered in a home at the foot of the Los Feliz hills. Sitting on folding chairs, couches and... More >>

• Baton Twirling

  published August 23, 2001

  The Bush administration has gone to great lengths, absurd lengths even, to take advantage of the stem-cell debate and cast the... More >>

• Play-Doh Republic

  published August 23, 2001

  The Bush administration has gone to great lengths, absurd lengths even, to take advantage of the stem-cell debate and cast the... More >>

• Easy Writer

  published August 23, 2001

  Talking over sandwiches at a Hollywood deli, Sandro Meallet barely fits into the beige leatherette booth. He‘s a big man, way out there on th... More >>

• The Intuitionist

  published August 2, 2001

  If writers can be divided between those who love to pontificate about their work and those who would prefer to talk about almost anything else,... More >>

• Landscapes

  published July 26, 2001

  One of the best lines I’ve read this year comes from Boston Teran‘s second novel, Never Count Out the Dead: ”Why slow dance with reality,... More >>

• You Call This Hot?

  published July 5, 2001

  Apocalypse junkies take heart, you may not have long to wait. Temperatures are rising, disaster is in sight. Imagine the Santa Monica Pier... More >>

• The Paper Chase

  published June 28, 2001

  Nicholson Baker‘s Double Fold takes its title from the librarians’ ritual of testing a book‘s ”usability“ by creasing a page c... More >>

• The Chandlers

  published June 14, 2001

  In 1894, young Harry Chandler cemented his role in the future of the Los Angeles Times by marrying his boss‘s daughter. He thereby not onl... More >>

• Enemy Turf

  published June 7, 2001

  W. came to California this week for his first visit since losing the state by 1.5 million votes. After a brief stop at Camp Pendleton to... More >>

• Off My Back

  published May 24, 2001

  Johnson remembers the days when you could spend the night undisturbed in the seats of Broadway‘s old Cameo Theater for $1.40. He remembers th... More >>

• Shadow Summit

  published May 3, 2001

  As tear-gas canisters flew in Quebec City, about 1,000 activists rallied at the U.S.-Mexican border to protest the proposed Free Trade Area of... More >>

• Class Wars

  published April 26, 2001

  Teenagers, the stereotype goes, don‘t like school. So drivers in Silver Lake may have been surprised last Thursday afternoon to see about 6... More >>

• Class Wars

  published April 26, 2001

  Teenagers, the stereotype goes, don‘t like school. So drivers in Silver Lake may have been surprised last Thursday afternoon to see about 6... More >>

• Class Wars

  published April 26, 2001

  Teenagers, the stereotype goes, don‘t like school. So drivers in Silver Lake may have been surprised last Thursday afternoon to see about 6... More >>

• Time, and Time Again

  published April 19, 2001

  Don DeLillo has never been one to shy away from big topics. He has made a practice of writing the Great American Novel -- or at least coming... More >>

• Cash, Class and Cool

  published April 12, 2001

  Early last spring, to my great surprise, I found myself at a party thrown by something called Bean.com. It was an expensive affair in a... More >>

• Hamburger Hell

  published March 15, 2001

  Eric Schlosser on French fries, American slaughterhouses and his new book, Fast Food Nation ”I‘ve eaten more fast food than I could ev... More >>

• The Big Heist

  published March 1, 2001

  With strikes brewing in Hollywood, Washington has been picking up the slack these last weeks. George W. Bush’s tax proposal will nee... More >>

• Dictators, Skyscrapers and Not-So-Nice Genes

  published February 22, 2001

  Despite the old adage, history provides precious few examples of what’s gone around coming around again. Distressed by the manifest lack o... More >>

• Fear and Furs

  published February 1, 2001

  It was at his first inaugural address in the early years of the Great Depression that Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously warned that fear was... More >>