<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en-US"><title>Freezerbox Magazine - Alexander Zaitchik</title><link rel="self" href="http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/author.php?id=2&#38;output=atom" /><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com"/><rights type="html">Copyright &#38;copy; 1997-2026 Infocrat, LLC. All rights reserved.</rights><logo>https://www.freezerbox.com/images/ads/freezerbox/bomb_88x31.gif</logo><id>https://www.freezerbox.com</id><updated>2026-05-08T17:08:24Z</updated><entry><title>I Am Jello</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=554"/><summary type="html">Senator Jay Rockefeller's shameful post-9/11 record.
</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2008-04-11T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2008-06-09T11:14:52Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=554</id></entry><entry><title>There Will Be Krov</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=553"/><summary type="html">Blood, oil, and Borat in Azerbaijan.</summary><category term="Travel"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2008-04-02T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2008-10-12T18:08:59Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=553</id></entry><entry><title>Megatons and Memory Holes</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=530"/><summary type="html">Richard Rhodes, Richard Perle, and the Man Who Saved the World.
</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2007-12-14T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2008-05-06T12:38:10Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=530</id></entry><entry><title>Edward Lucas' Cold War Hustle</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=527"/><summary type="html">An &#60;I&#62;Economist&#60;/I&#62; correspondent's not-so-cautious case for a repeat of the costliest and most dangerous conflict in human history. 
</summary><category term="Media"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2007-11-26T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2008-01-17T13:23:54Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=527</id></entry><entry><title>Inside the Zone</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=523"/><summary type="html">Fifty years after the world's first major nuclear accident, radiation is still leaking into Russia's Ural Mountains -- and beyond.

</summary><category term="Environment"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2007-10-17T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2008-04-18T10:35:40Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=523</id></entry><entry><title>Can a Single Reporter Knock Off a Presidential Candidate?</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=511"/><summary type="html">If the &#60;I&#62;Washington Post's&#60;/I&#62; John Solomon keeps hitting the Edwards campaign below the belt, the answer may be yes.
</summary><category term="Media"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2007-08-11T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2007-11-19T13:41:11Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=511</id></entry><entry><title>&#34;Sometimes I Wish I Was Never Born&#34;</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=500"/><summary type="html">A &#60;I&#62;Freezerbox&#60;/I&#62; interview with missile defense.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2007-06-12T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2007-06-30T08:59:52Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=500</id></entry><entry><title>The Bored Whore of Kyoto</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=499"/><summary type="html">European johns line up to tap Russia's carbon reduction potential.</summary><category term="Environment"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2007-06-01T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2007-06-01T16:15:18Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=499</id></entry><entry><title>Going Ballistic</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=490"/><summary type="html">U.S. plans for missile defense systems in Eastern Europe could be a dangerous tipping point in relations with Russia. 
</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2007-03-30T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2007-06-19T13:35:16Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=490</id></entry><entry><title>Who Would Jesus Deport?</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=486"/><summary type="html">Evangelicals seamlessly incorporate anti-immigrant rhetoric with their traditional odes to God and country.</summary><category term="Religion"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2007-02-01T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2007-05-25T12:28:54Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=486</id></entry><entry><title>'Round Midnight</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=485"/><summary type="html">How Congress can start turning back the minute-hand on the Doomsday clock.
</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2007-01-25T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2007-05-25T12:29:54Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=485</id></entry><entry><title>Blood and Vomit</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=453"/><summary type="html">John Hersey's &#60;I&#62;Hiroshima&#60;/I&#62; turns 60.
</summary><category term="Media"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2006-08-08T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2007-08-06T07:39:39Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=453</id></entry><entry><title>Akha Teej -- the Superbowl Sunday of Child Marriage</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=442"/><summary type="html">With the sand people in Rajasthan, where tots tie knots.</summary><category term="Society"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2006-05-28T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2006-11-01T19:27:14Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=442</id></entry><entry><title>Follow the Leader</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=440"/><summary type="html">Remembering leader Rudy Giuliani's historic leadership of the Middlebury '05 commencement ceremony.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2006-05-26T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2006-05-27T06:27:13Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=440</id></entry><entry><title>Letter from Nepal</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=438"/><summary type="html">A week waiting for the regicide that wasn't.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2006-05-15T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2006-10-20T16:09:09Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=438</id></entry><entry><title>Dr. DMT</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=423"/><summary type="html">A conversation with Rick Strassman on the sad state of psychedelic research, Albert Hoffman at 100, and the possibly cosmic pineal gland.
</summary><category term="Science"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2006-03-27T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2006-03-29T19:32:35Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=423</id></entry><entry><title>Heart Attack</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=418"/><summary type="html">Al Qaeda finally goes for the jugular.

</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2006-03-05T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2006-03-09T14:01:15Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=418</id></entry><entry><title>Bihar's Blues</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=406"/><summary type="html">Maoists, misery and mayhem in modern India.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2006-01-20T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2006-01-21T21:36:26Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=406</id></entry><entry><title>Pin the Tail on the Eco-Disaster</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=388"/><summary type="html">Ditch the donkey, break out the globe.</summary><category term="Environment"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2005-11-14T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2005-11-15T15:30:47Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=388</id></entry><entry><title>Papa Smurf</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=382"/><summary type="html">Remembering E. F. Schumacher in the age of Peak Oil.</summary><category term="Environment"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2005-10-20T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2005-10-20T20:33:03Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=382</id></entry><entry><title>Occupation, not Koran, Mandates Suicide Bombing</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=366"/><summary type="html">Plus, we can rest easy: Rumsfeld shoots down London bombing-Iraq link.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2005-08-17T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2005-08-18T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=366</id></entry><entry><title>Here Comes the Sun</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=358"/><summary type="html">A quarterly climate-change screed.</summary><category term="Environment"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2005-08-03T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2005-10-28T19:56:41Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=358</id></entry><entry><title>Last Best Chance</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=345"/><summary type="html">A nuclear 9/11 isn't inevitable, but apathy isn't helping the odds.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2005-06-25T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2005-06-26T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=345</id></entry><entry><title>Kyoto Fried Chicken</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=336"/><summary type="html">Global Warming and the politics of sleep.</summary><category term="Environment"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2005-03-02T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2005-03-02T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=336</id></entry><entry><title>It's the Pipelines, Stupid</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=332"/><summary type="html">How to bring down a giant, one blood vessel at a time.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2005-01-31T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2005-01-31T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=332</id></entry><entry><title>Dr. Strangefeld</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=329"/><summary type="html">Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the Long-Rod Penetrator.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2005-01-12T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2005-01-13T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=329</id></entry><entry><title>Did Jesus Wear Birkenstocks?</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=328"/><summary type="html">Conservative evangelical Christians are getting worried about the fate of God's creation. Can the greening of the GOP base happen fast enough to derail the party's scorched-earth plans for Bush II?</summary><category term="Environment"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2004-12-23T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2004-12-23T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=328</id></entry><entry><title>Battleground Galactica</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=318"/><summary type="html">Counting down to November 2 in southwestern Wisconsin.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2004-11-01T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2004-11-11T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=318</id></entry><entry><title>Capture the Flag</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=314"/><summary type="html">Can the GOP protect the national-security lie until November?</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2004-09-29T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2004-09-29T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=314</id></entry><entry><title>The Illustrator at War</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=308"/><summary type="html">Talking politics with illustrator Steve Brodner.</summary><category term="Culture"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2004-09-01T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2007-01-04T20:51:50Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=308</id></entry><entry><title>The Slumbering Ranks</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=298"/><summary type="html">We know there's soldier depression and anger in Iraq--so where's the dissent?</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2004-08-01T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2004-08-04T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=298</id></entry><entry><title>Through Different Eyes</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=292"/><summary type="html">Al Jazeera like you've never seen it before.</summary><category term="Film"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2004-05-21T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2004-05-21T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=292</id></entry><entry><title>Doesn't It Ring a (Prison) Bell?</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=291"/><summary type="html">The road to Abu Ghraib runs through Texas.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2004-05-17T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2004-05-17T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=291</id></entry><entry><title>Breaking the Sound Barrier</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=289"/><summary type="html">An interview with Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman.</summary><category term="Media"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2004-05-03T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2004-05-03T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=289</id></entry><entry><title>Hair-Trigger Planet</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=285"/><summary type="html">The Cold War is over. The nuclear threat is not.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2004-03-01T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2007-01-04T20:43:12Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=285</id></entry><entry><title>Cheney on the Moon</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=281"/><summary type="html">The celestial endgame of Halliburton logic.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2004-02-04T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2004-02-04T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=281</id></entry><entry><title>Infernal Combustion</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=262"/><summary type="html">Six Prague activists envision a world without cars.</summary><category term="Environment"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2003-02-04T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2003-02-06T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=262</id></entry><entry><title>Havel's Polluted Sunset</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=261"/><summary type="html">Smoking hash at the Prague castle, and other presidential memories.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2003-01-26T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2003-01-27T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=261</id></entry><entry><title>From Checkpoint Charlie to Tora Bora</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=250"/><summary type="html">A look at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization--past, present and uncertain future.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2002-11-12T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-12-02T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=250</id></entry><entry><title>Stupid Ass NATO Summit</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=245"/><summary type="html">The last thing Prague needs is on the way.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2002-10-30T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-12-02T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=245</id></entry><entry><title>Semtex: The Magic Marble of Pardubice</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=221"/><summary type="html">A brief history of the world's most famous plastic explosive.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Jeff Koyen</name></author><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2002-08-27T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2006-08-14T17:15:43Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=221</id></entry><entry><title>Wars, Wackos and Warming</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=218"/><summary type="html">It's the end of the world as we know it--and Dick Cheney feels fine.</summary><category term="Environment"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2002-08-25T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-08-26T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=218</id></entry><entry><title>Warning Shots</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=202"/><summary type="html">Thoughts and facts on Europe's far-right.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2002-05-21T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-05-21T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=202</id></entry><entry><title>Hugo Chavez for President</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=197"/><summary type="html">Was last month's failed coup in Venezuela Bush's mini-Bay of Pigs?</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2002-05-01T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-09-28T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=197</id></entry><entry><title>Main Event: American Energy Policy</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=164"/><summary type="html">What do terrorism, global warming, 21st century resource wars and Dick Cheney have in common?</summary><category term="Environment"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2001-11-01T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-11-14T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=164</id></entry><entry><title>Why?</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=154"/><summary type="html">If answered honestly, then trigger happy military attacks cannot possibly be the answer to the second urgent question: What Now?</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2001-09-17T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2001-10-20T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=154</id></entry><entry><title>The World Rally Championship is Sick and Depraved (Sort Of)</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=236"/><summary type="html">An inside account of motorsport's dusty underbelly.</summary><category term="Sports"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2001-07-12T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-10-20T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=236</id></entry><entry><title>Evil Bastards</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=113"/><summary type="html">It's 2001 and the Dick Cheney White House still doesn't believe in global warming. God help us all.</summary><category term="Environment"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2001-03-24T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-10-11T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=113</id></entry><entry><title>Down The Memory Hole</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=130"/><summary type="html">Marc Rich versus the Iran-Contra pardons. Where was the outrage?</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2001-02-27T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2001-02-27T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=130</id></entry><entry><title>The Folly of National Missile Defense</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=107"/><summary type="html">Bush's hawk's nest is screeching for a full-blown National Missile Defense system. Start paying attention to this one. The stakes could not be higher.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2001-01-21T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2001-01-21T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=107</id></entry><entry><title>No Justice, No Golf!</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=105"/><summary type="html">Sure conservatives dress funny, talk funny and think funny. Now we know they protest funny too. Freezerbox looks back at the Miami Golfers riot of 2000.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2000-12-01T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-11-13T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=105</id></entry><entry><title>Once Again, America Stands Alone</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=102"/><summary type="html">America's responsibility for the collapse of the recent climate conference at The Hague taught the world an important lesson: neither to be beaten nor joined, the USA should just be ignored.</summary><category term="Environment"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2000-11-28T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2000-11-28T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=102</id></entry><entry><title>In Serbia, Baseball Quietly Thrives Amid Tumult</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=94"/><summary type="html">During most of the last decade, baseball has survived--and even thrived--against the odds in Serbia. Alex Zaitchik reports on that interesting intersection of sports and politics.</summary><category term="Culture"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2000-11-16T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-03-10T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=94</id></entry><entry><title>Alphabet Soup and the Asshole of Europe</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=90"/><summary type="html">Our Balkans correspondent reports on his afternoon with the KLA and Miss Albania 2000.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2000-11-06T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2000-11-06T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=90</id></entry><entry><title>Why I Don't Invest</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=59"/><summary type="html">If you're an investor, you probably aren't reading this. You're watching MSNBC. You also probably have tunnel vision. I know. I used to be one.</summary><category term="Culture"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2000-06-12T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2000-06-12T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=59</id></entry><entry><title>The 1990s as 1950s: Now What?</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=42"/><summary type="html">As the world attempts to make sense of a historic week of protest in Washington, who can help but wonder: Are we entering another decade of social unrest and mass activism? And do we get to win this time?</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2000-04-14T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-10-19T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=42</id></entry><entry><title>Lest We Forget: Neo-conservatives and Republican Foreign Policy, 1976-2000</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=41"/><summary type="html">The neo-conservative camp of the Republican Party is calling for a massive arms build up and a more aggressive US role in world affairs, including &#34;rogue regime rollback.&#34; If the neo-cons regain power, GOP foreign policy under their influence could look a lot like it did in the early 1980's. Be afraid. Be very afraid.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2000-04-06T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-11-13T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=41</id></entry><entry><title>One Bush Was Enough, But Thank You</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=20"/><summary type="html">George W. Bush has turned the state of Texas into a toxic dump. He knows virtually nothing about the world or the important issues of the day. He is not considered mentally equipped by the brains of his own Party. He is fully in the pocket of the most polluting industries on Earth. He defines 'arms control' as the ability to hit your target. And he just might be in the drivers seat at the dawn of the next American Century. Valium, anyone?</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2000-03-13T08:00:00Z</published><updated>-0001-11-30T07:52:58Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=20</id></entry><entry><title>John McCain For Uncle in 2000; Al Gore For President</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=24"/><summary type="html">John McCain has a lot of independents charged up with his straight talking GOP insurgency. Talk of &#34;McCain Democrats&#34; has the Gore camp sweaty. Alex Zaitchik is afraid all the excitement has blurred our collective sanity.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>2000-02-24T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-10-11T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=24</id></entry><entry><title>Media Reform Bill Deserves Support</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=17"/><summary type="html">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.</summary><category term="Media"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>1999-04-14T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-10-19T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=17</id></entry><entry><title>Whitey on the Moon (Revisited)</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=13"/><summary type="html">Who won the Post Office's &#34;Celebrate the Century&#34; ballot? Are these voters the real arbiters of history? Or, did Ayn Rand get it right when she wrote a 1970 piece called &#34;Apollo and Dionysus.&#34;  She declared the two forces coined by Nietzsche to represent &#34;the fundamental conflict of the age&#34;, are Cape Kennedy and Woodstock--embodying both principles in &#34;pure, extreme, isolated form.&#34;</summary><category term="Society"/><author><name>Alexander Zaitchik</name></author><published>1998-09-15T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2005-10-28T03:44:05Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=13</id></entry></feed>