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Left Behind

Harold Meyerson
ACHIEVING OUR COUNTRY: Leftist Thought in Twentieth Century America BY RICHARD RORTY Harvard University Press 144 pages $19 hardcover On behalf of countless readers whose reaction to most left academic writing over the past two decades has increasingly been not so much either agreement or disagreement as an overpowering sense......

Rumble on Rodeo

Harold Meyerson
On the afternoon of Wednesday, April 8, police moved in to cordon off the doors of the Summit Rodeo, a pricy small hotel nestled among still pricier retail establishments on Beverly Hills’ priciest street. They had been summoned by hotel management to preserve the sanctity of the lobby from the......

The Dollar Dems

Harold Meyerson
If he accomplishes nothing else during his megabucks run for governor, Al Checchi has already set the standard for party-giving. Delegates to last weekend’s state Democratic Convention at the Bonaventure Hotel were plainly stunned by Checchi’s Saturday-night reception. They dutifully cruised through the desultory soirees of Checchi’s rivals, Lieutenant Governor......

Almost Unbidden, Nations Stand Up

Harold Meyerson
JAMES STEINBERG is deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs - that is, the top deputy to National Security adviser Sandy Berger. HAROLD MEYERSON spoke with him on Friday, February 13. Harold Meyerson: Does the level of Russian opposition, and other international opposition, to a proposed military action......

I Would Prefer Commando Units to Bombing Raids

Harold Meyerson
MICHAEL WALZER is a professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, co-editor of Dissent and author of Just and Unjust Wars, Revolution of the Saints and other works. He spoke with HAROLD MEYERSON about the morality of military action in the Persian Gulf, particularly about......

A Tin-Pot Dictator Is Being Inflated

Harold Meyerson
Iraqi dissident KANAN MAKIYA, a fellow at Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies and a visiting professor at Brandeis, is author of four books on Iraq, among them Republic of Fear, which is widely considered the authoritative account of Saddam Hussein's regime. Born and raised in Iraq, Makiya found that......
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Feinstein Lite

Harold Meyerson
This year, California will experience a new kind of election. And as of last week, it may just have a politician who'll be able to exploit it. In June, Californians will encounter a primary ballot unlike any seen in this state since the '40s. Under the open-primary law passed by......

Is This Any Way To Run a Country?

Harold Meyerson
Presume not that I am the thing I was; For God doth know, so shall the world perceive, That I have turn’d away my former self; So will I those that kept me company. And with these words, from the concluding scene of Henry IV, Part II, Shakespeare’s Prince Hal......