Sea Sick Sea Sick
Reviews of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Edmond, The Motel, Gabrielle, Time to Leave and The Blood of My Brother.
Jul 13, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Short Takes Short Takes
Stick Out Your Tongue. By Ma Jian. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 93 pp. $16.
Jul 13, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood and Katherine Ryder
Empire as a Way of Life Empire as a Way of Life
Two new histories of British imperial rule in India take the narrow view. In fact, the scandal of empire can be isolated neither to Europe nor to the past.
Jul 13, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Linda Colley
Legal Weapon Legal Weapon
International law offers protection to the oppressed. In Are Women Human?, feminist legal scholar Catharine A. MacKinnon exposes the hypocrisy of not extending the same protectio...
Jul 13, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Martha C. Nussbaum
From Imperialism to Empire From Imperialism to Empire
The crises faced by Bush signal not only the errors of his Administration but the end of imperialism itself--and the emergence of new, more dangerous forces.
Jul 13, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Michael Hardt
Swing-Time in New Mexico Swing-Time in New Mexico
In the ultimate swing district of the ultimate swing state, Patricia Madrid is trying to unseat New Mexico Representative "Leather" Heather Wilson. Is her Mountain State liberalism...
Jul 13, 2006 / Feature / Marc Cooper
Born-Again Rubinomics Born-Again Rubinomics
Is Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin's new "conceptual framework" of economic reform an acknowledgment of neoliberalism's failures or simply a repackaged version of Clintono...
Jul 13, 2006 / Feature / William Greider
Green Grows Grassroots Green Grows Grassroots
In the Bush era, the green movement has become a paper tiger. It must regroup, reframe and reach out across the lines of race and class that have kept environmental issues at the p...
Jul 13, 2006 / Feature / Mark Hertsgaard
Letters Letters
Readers write back about Ari Berman's coverage of the Democratic National Committee, Eugene Richards' photojournalism and William Johnson's coverage of the Teamsters.
Jul 13, 2006 / Our Readers and William Johnson
The Times Is Us The Times Is Us
In wartime, you lose the luxury of choosing your allies: The Bush Administration's attacks on the New York Times are attacks on us all.
Jul 13, 2006 / Column / Eric Alterman