The Optimism of Uncertainty The Optimism of Uncertainty
The metaphor is deliberate; life is a gamble. Not to play is to foreclose any chance of winning.
Sep 2, 2004 / Feature / Howard Zinn
The Gates of Hope The Gates of Hope
This article was adapted from The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear (Basic Books, www.theimpossible.org).
Sep 2, 2004 / Feature / Victoria Safford
Hope for Human Rights Hope for Human Rights
This article was adapted from The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear (Basic Books, www.theimpossible.org).
Sep 2, 2004 / Feature / Kenneth Roth
Political Alternatives Political Alternatives
OK, I tried to watch the Republican convention on TV--I really did--but the early rounds of the US Open were playing seductively on ESPN.
Sep 2, 2004 / William Greider
The Burden of Memory The Burden of Memory
Perhaps you noticed them in the main square of your town this year--or last year, or any year you've been alive, in any town where you've ever lived: a group of people solemnly a...
Sep 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Meline Toumani
At the Border At the Border
At the border between the past and the future No sign on a post warns that your passport Won't let you return to your native land As a citizen, just as a tourist
Sep 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Carl Dennis
The Poverty of Theory The Poverty of Theory
Gertrude Himmelfarb is a remarkable woman. Remarkable, first, because in some respects she is a pioneer.
Sep 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Linda Colley
Totem and Taboo Totem and Taboo
It did not take long for a term that not long ago was slanderous to become a cliché.
Sep 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Ronald Steel
In Full Bloom In Full Bloom
Adapted from Everything We Love Can Be Saved, copyright 1997 by Alice Walker. Used by permission of Random House, Inc.
Sep 2, 2004 / Feature / Alice Walker
The Sukkah of Shalom The Sukkah of Shalom
Part of this essay appeared in From the Ashes: A Spiritual Response to the Attack on America, by the editors of Beliefnet (Rodale).
Sep 2, 2004 / Feature / Arthur Waskow