Alexander Zaitchik

Alexander Zaitchik co-founded Freezerbox in 1998. He has reported from more than a dozen countries for publications such as the International Herald Tribune, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Wired, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Believer, and many others. He lives in New York City.

Why I Don't Invest
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
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.
06.12.2000 | CULTURE

The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post-Cold War
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
Robert Kaplan is a professional downer. We are lucky to have him, but should be prepared to look beyond his hopeless worldview--its just blind idealism in reverse, and just as dangerous.
05.23.2000 | BOOKS

Past is Prologue: Vonnegut's Last Book
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
Kurt Vonnegut's final book is a collection of short fiction from the 1950's. It goes down easy, but is likely to form a Kilgore Trout's parakeet sized lump in your soul.
04.19.2000 | BOOKS

The 1990s as 1950s: Now What?
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
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?
04.14.2000 | POLITICS

Lest We Forget: Neo-conservatives and Republican Foreign Policy, 1976-2000
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
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 "rogue regime rollback." 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.
04.06.2000 | POLITICS

One Bush Was Enough, But Thank You
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
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?
03.13.2000 | POLITICS

The Onion's Sweet Scent
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
The last thing The Onion needs is more effusive praise, but I'll just say this anyway: Our Dumb Century is a flat-out brilliant, milk-spurting-out-of-your-nose tour de force of razor blade studded, dangerously informed wrecking ball humor. There, it's out.
02.24.2000 | BOOKS

John McCain For Uncle in 2000; Al Gore For President
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
John McCain has a lot of independents charged up with his straight talking GOP insurgency. Talk of "McCain Democrats" has the Gore camp sweaty. Alex Zaitchik is afraid all the excitement has blurred our collective sanity.
02.24.2000 | POLITICS

Bruce Lee: Champ or Cheese?
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
Bruce Lee made four awful movies and died, and yet he fascinates all over the world. Davis Miller explores why in a new book.
02.24.2000 | BOOKS

Media Reform Bill Deserves Support
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
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.
04.14.1999 | MEDIA

D.A.R.E. To Keep Our Government Off Drugs
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
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!
09.15.1998 | BOOKS

Whitey on the Moon (Revisited)
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
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."
09.15.1998 | SOCIETY