Letter From Pôrto Alegre Letter From Pôrto Alegre
PÔRTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL--In their last full day of discussion and debate, the thousands of delegates attending the World Social Forum were asking themselves not only what they...
Jan 31, 2002 / Feature / Marc Cooper
Letters Letters
ABOUT THAT AD... In light of Norman Finkelstein's effort to peddle his vituperative book by taking out advertisements in The Nation [see page 17] calling me a liar, I ha...
Jan 31, 2002 / Burt Neuborne
Politically Incorrect Politically Incorrect
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Jan 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
Enron Hearings Enron Hearings
(With apologies to Stephen Foster) The Enron hearings stretch ahead, Doo-dah, doo-dah, Until the final soundbite's said. Oh, doo-dah day. Pols will posture night...
Jan 31, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Shall We Leave It to the Experts? Shall We Leave It to the Experts?
Enron's power project in India demonstrates who benefits from globalization.
Jan 31, 2002 / Feature / Arundhati Roy
Fusion Biopolitics Fusion Biopolitics
In the next few weeks the Senate will hold hearings and vote on legislation that would outlaw the cloning of human embryos, either for the purpose of medical experimentation or t...
Jan 31, 2002 / Jeremy Rifkin
Filipineza Filipineza
In the modern Greek dictionary, the word "Filipineza" means "maid." If I became the brown woman mistaken for a shadow, please tell your people I'm a tree. Or its curli...
Jan 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Bino A. Realuyo
Pierre Bourdieu, 1930-2002 Pierre Bourdieu, 1930-2002
The death on January 23 of the French philosopher and sociologist Pierre Bourdieu came as the American chattering classes were busy checking the math in Richard Posner's Public I...
Jan 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt
Victory for Viet Vets Victory for Viet Vets
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Jan 31, 2002 / Peter Montague and Maria B. Pellerano