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Here's a historical puzzle, for those with the stomach for it. How is it that the Jews survived the first Christian millennium? The church, from the moment of its embrace by the Roman Emperor Constantine in the 4th century, enjoyed immense power and employed it with ruthless efficiency to eliminate dozens of heresies and pagan creeds. Its relationship with Judaism, its spiritual predecessor and the first challenger to its claims for Christ, was especially poisonous. Why, then, were the Jews permitted to live--and be persecuted--another...
This was our own fault: we had put way too much pressure on the new millennium. We'd been getting geared up for the year 2000--a year so special we put the phrase "the year" in front of it--for a long, long time. It was 1982 when Prince released a song predicting nuclear armageddon or a really good party--depending on how you read it--on New Year's Eve, 1999. It was 1993 when Conan O'Brien started his "In the Year 2000" segment ("In the year 2000 Roger Ebert will be so overweight...
...close as they're gonna get b. Hosting a millennium celebration c. Losing another staring contest with Socks d. Totally flummoxed by Regis' $200 question...
...year rife with space-age communication, space-age travel, once a presumed inevitability of the new millennium, wasn't happening. Instead, the hip mode of transportation evoked the era of Eisenhower, if not the Flintstones. The foot-propelled scooter captivated virtually every age group in every community across America. Collapsible, portable and all but useless for even medium-distance commutes, the scooter achieved enough prominence to generate its own backlash: injuries to riders, irritation to pedestrians. For the duration of its extended moment, the scooter answered a nostalgia for an earlier age and a desire for frivolity in this...
...industry with death by a thousand clicks. Video software allowed anyone to be an auteur. A novel titled Riding the Bullet, by a plucky little outsider named Stephen King, showed that the e-book could democratize publishing. Or at least win a bigger cut for filthy-rich authors. New millennium art may not know where it's going yet, but wherever that may be, it'll charge for the trip. --James Poniewozik...