Selected Essays by Gore Vidal from The Nation

Times Cries Eke! Buries Al Gore December 17, 2001
Florida revisited: Schadenfreude amid the carnage of the democratic process.

Democratic Vistas December 21, 2000
We shall see very little of the charmingly simian George W. Bush. The military—Cheney, Powell et al.—will be calling the tune, and the whole nation will be on constant alert, for, James Baker has already warned us, Terrorism is everywhere on the march. We cannot be too vigilant.

Candid in Camera September 27, 1999
It all began in the heat of the summer of 1940. Hitler was at his peak in Europe. France had been defeated.

Birds & Bees & Clinton December 28, 1998

Coup de Starr October 26, 1998

The New Theocrats July 21, 1997

The End of History September 30, 1996

Andy Kopkind, 1935-94 June 12, 1995

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