Bull’s Eye Bull’s Eye
This was the summer when the movies were so bad, people were reduced to complaining about a Mel Gibson film they hadn't seen.
Aug 28, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Regarding the Pain of Others Regarding the Pain of Others
In Plato's Republic, Socrates illustrates his theory of the parts of the soul with the story of Leontius, who saw some corpses rotting outside the walls of Athens and was torn ...
Aug 28, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Swing Time for Hitler Swing Time for Hitler
It is of some small comfort that totalitarian regimes are never quite as total as either their leaders or subsequent historians might imagine.
Aug 28, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Brian Morton
The Life of the Party The Life of the Party
Interesting Times is a curiously feeble title for an autobiography, rather as if Noam Chomsky were to write an article called "Could America Do Better?" It carries, of co...
Aug 28, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Terry Eagleton
Labor Fights for Rights Labor Fights for Rights
Workers have lost the right to organize. A new effort aims to get it back.
Aug 28, 2003 / Feature / David Moberg
Where’s the Compassion? Where’s the Compassion?
Bush's "compassionate conservatism" is a deft--and dishonest--strategy.
Aug 28, 2003 / Feature / Joe Conason
Ignited Iraq Ignited Iraq
An imperial errand is not so hard to begin, not so easy to complete.
Aug 28, 2003 / Feature / Peter Davis
Handmaid in Babylon: The UN’s Decline and Fall Handmaid in Babylon: The UN’s Decline and Fall
"One has to be careful," said United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan in late August, "not to confuse the UN with the US." If the Secretary General had taken his own advice...
Aug 28, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Just Wait Just Wait
The White House said, although it wasn't true, Iraq must be invaded, PDQ, Since terrorists, who'd caught us unaware, Were with Iraq, and always gathered there.
Aug 28, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
In the Stars In the Stars
This essay was one of the winners out of a pool of 290 entries in a recent writing contest sponsored by Women's WORLD, the Nation Institute and the Puffin Foundation designed to br...
Aug 28, 2003 / Monica Arac de Nyeko