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A True Patriot Can Pose Hard Questions A True Patriot Can Pose Hard Questions

War skeptics such as Richard Gere, Susan Sontag, Rep.

Oct 23, 2001 / Column / Robert Scheer

Letters Letters

TERRORI$T CA$H--$TAY$ CLEAN St. Clairsville, Ohio Lucy Komisar's June 18 "After Dirty Air, Dirty Money," on money-laundering [posted on the Nation web...

Oct 18, 2001 / Roane Carey and Our Readers

On V.S. Naipaul’s Nobel Prize On V.S. Naipaul’s Nobel Prize

So V.S. Naipaul finally gets the prize. It's said he's willing, through unblinking eyes, To make his observations, then recall The bleakest Third World countries, warts and al...

Oct 18, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Profits of Fear Profits of Fear

Every closet in my medical office is suddenly filled with samples of Ciprofloxacin, an ordinary antibiotic intended primarily for use with bladder infections. This week, every pat...

Oct 18, 2001 / Dr. Marc Siegel

Letter From Ground Zero: October 18, 2011 Letter From Ground Zero: October 18, 2011

Seven Million at Risk

Oct 18, 2001 / Jonathan Schell

War and Peace War and Peace

How depressing was the October 13 peace rally in Washington Square? Well, the Bread and Puppet Theater performed--that should give you an idea. "It's the sixties all over again,"...

Oct 18, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Can Mark Green Heal NYC? Can Mark Green Heal NYC?

New York's Democratic mayoral primary revealed the city's racial fault lines.

Oct 18, 2001 / Feature / Jack Newfield

Profiles in Cowardice Profiles in Cowardice

My three favorite media stories in recent weeks were how Bill "Politically Incorrect" Maher kept his job at ABC-TV, how Ann Coulter got herself fired from National Review and how ...

Oct 18, 2001 / Victor Navasky

Earth in the Balance Earth in the Balance

It is life that Joy Williams is after in this book about (at times overwhelmingly or bizarrely) death. Ill Nature means her anger, her attitude, but it really means sick Nature. ...

Oct 18, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Joseph McElroy

Press Watch Press Watch

Since September 11, Thomas Friedman has been in fine form. In his New York Times column, he has composed a letter for George W. Bush to send to Osama bin Laden, urged Vladimir Put...

Oct 18, 2001 / Michael Massing

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