Alexander Zaitchik

According to New York Times foreign affairs columnist Tom Friedman, opponents of the WTO are ignorant, thrill-seeking, retro-oriented wannabe Weatherman wackos. Maxwell Ford opens up the Sixties analogy and asks how someone so smart can be so dumb.

Britain's greatest living journalist unmasks the Third Way.

The media reform bill up for vote in the Czech Parliament this spring is a hornet's nest of issues, each of which promises to influence Czech society far beyond the bill's pragmatic role as just another EU requirement.

Forget the Cold War--the next one will zoom past hot to thermonuclear.

The convergence of Planet Hollywood with the levers of State power is nothing new in America.

Y2K, even if it had come to pass, still small stuff compared to the Day After.

For those too young to remember the presidency of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the name tends to evoke an awkward admixture of myth and reality. With the November publication of Seymour Hersh's exhaustively researched and brilliantly executed 450-page revisionist analysis "The Dark Side of Camelot" you can loose the rose colored glasses.

Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic? Or the The End of History and the Last Man! Frank Fukuyama makes brief mention of environmental collapse as a possible problem for the stability of the New World Order in the 21st century. The reality is that we need to build another ship more appropriate to the world which we inhabit. Otherwise its Iceberg City baby, and don't expect a sequel.

Who won the Post Office's "Celebrate the Century" ballot? Are these voters the real arbiters of history? Or, did Ayn Rand get it right when she wrote a 1970 piece called "Apollo and Dionysus." She declared the two forces coined by Nietzsche to represent "the fundamental conflict of the age", are Cape Kennedy and Woodstock--embodying both principles in "pure, extreme, isolated form."

Gary Webb of the San Jose Mercury News first published a series of articles connecting the CIA to Nicaraguan cocaine traffickers. His new book, Dark Alliance tells the whole story. You won't believe it, even thought you know it's true!