Rundown of Print Version

Jan/Feb 1999 - Volume 31 Issues 1&2

JUST THE FACTS? : The Good - and the Really Bad in "ATTITUDE REPORTING" -- As a special 30th Anniversary feature, the Monthly hosts a Symposium on objectivity, and the obligations of journalists to their readers. Contributors to this symposium are among the best and brightest at work in journalism today (and, coincidentally, all Washington Monthly Alumni). They include:

Jonathan Alter, Gregg Easterbrook, James Fallows, David Ignatius, Michael Kinsley, Susannah Lessard, Art Levine, Matthew Miller, Timothy Noah, Joseph Nocera, Walter Shapiro, and Scott Schuger.

Click in, and find out what the insiders have to say about objective journalism (or lack thereof) at the end of the 20th century!

JESSE'S VICTORY ~ Steven Schier
A former Pro-Wrestler and Action Hero as Governor? After examining the evidence, Steven Schier comes to the conclusion that Jesse Ventura's victory in Minnesota was "No Fluke".

TILTING AT WINDMILLS -- Charles Peters muses upon: Consensual Monitoring... Impecunious Victors... A Teacher Who Taught... Detroit's Nazis... The FBI's Psychic...

THE OUTCAST ~ Nicholas Lemann.
Norman Podhoretz never forgave the New York intellectuals for rejecting him. A review of EX-FRIENDS: Falling Out With Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling,Lillian Helman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer by Norman Podhoretz.

NEW WORLDS ~ Suzannah Lessard.
A review of AN EMPIRE WILDERNESS: Travels Into America's Future by Robert D. Kaplan.

THE MONTHLY JOURNALISM AWARDS -- Contrary to popular belief, the Monthly will also salute the best of the best in the area of journalistic integrity.

WHO'S WHO -- Mellon Scaife's contribution to history; The McDougal Blues; Why Hillary is nifty, and what are Rasputin & J. Edgar Hoover doing over at NASA?