Nation Notes Nation Notes
Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things, whose essay deploring India's decision to test atomic weapons appeared in The Nation ("The End of Imagination," September 28, 19...
Oct 4, 2001 / The Editors
The Complex Fate of the Jewish-American Writer The Complex Fate of the Jewish-American Writer
As early as the 1960s, influential critics argued that American Jewish writing no longer counted as a distinct or viable literary project, for younger Jews had grown so ass...
Oct 4, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Morris Dickstein
The Complex Fate of the Jewish-American Writer The Complex Fate of the Jewish-American Writer
The conflict between Roth and Howe was partly temperamental, but some of it was generational.
Oct 4, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Morris Dickstein
A Rejoinder to Noam Chomsky A Rejoinder to Noam Chomsky
The two related questions before the house are these. Can the attacks of September 11 be compared to an earlier outrage committed by Americans? And should they be so compared? ...
Oct 4, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Public Statement on Pacifica Public Statement on Pacifica
Several individuals have attributed to me certain statements on the issue of the situation known as the "Pacifica Crisis." As I am quite capable of speaking for myself without ea...
Oct 4, 2001 / Feature / Marc Cooper
Trading on Terror Trading on Terror
Moving to exploit a shifting political landscape in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush's Congressional ...
Oct 3, 2001 / Feature / John Nichols
Intelligence Test Intelligence Test
Another Pearl Harbor! That was the reaction of many after hijackers managed to turn airliners into low-tech cruise missiles and kill 6,000 people.
Oct 3, 2001 / Feature / David Corn
Thugs Make Unreliable Allies Thugs Make Unreliable Allies
Are we losing it? Have the recent acts of terrorism caused us to cut our moorings in a flood of outrage and frustration?
Oct 3, 2001 / Column / Robert Scheer
Reply to Hitchens Reply to Hitchens
I have been asked to respond to recent Nation articles by Christopher Hitchens (website, September 24; magazine, Oct. 8), and after refusing several times, will do so, though only…
Oct 1, 2001 / Feature / Noam Chomsky
‘Manifest Duplicity’ ‘Manifest Duplicity’
Some Sundays back, the New York Times fronted a story from its Paris correspondent, Suzanne Daley, about the fear and loathing Americans induce among Europeans these days.
Oct 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Patrick Smith