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
The Geopolitics of War The Geopolitics of War
Whoever controls Saudi Arabia's oil wields great power over the world economy.
Oct 18, 2001 / Feature / Michael T. Klare
The Devil Made Us Do It The Devil Made Us Do It
"God Diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder," the satirical magazine The Onion has proclaimed, citing "His confusing propensity to alternately reward and punish His creations with little...
Oct 18, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Wendy Kaminer
Wanted: Global Politics Wanted: Global Politics
New types of violence are on the rise, and the only exit route is political.
Oct 18, 2001 / Feature / Mary Kaldor
Court Time for Henry Court Time for Henry
Although it may appear that the aftershocks of September 11 have somewhat deposed the discourse of human rights and international law and replaced it with that of law and order, th...
Oct 18, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Respite in a Minor Key Respite in a Minor Key
I would like an unbroken stretch of drizzly weekday afternoons, in a moulting season: nowhere else to go but across the street for bread, and the paper. Later, faces, voices...
Oct 18, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Marilyn Hacker