Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero
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Jan 20, 2005 / Jonathan Schell
Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero
As I followed the initial coverage of the tsunami in the Indian Ocean, I was reminded of a time in the early1980s when I spent some months researching the effects of a nuclear wa...
Jan 6, 2005 / Jonathan Schell
Intervention Intervention
The Jonathan Schell Reader has just been published by Nation Books.
Dec 22, 2004 / Jonathan Schell
Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero
For some time now, American political discussion has seemed to revolve around little stock phrases, such as "defining moment" (at the time of the first Gulf War), "the end of his...
Nov 18, 2004 / Jonathan Schell
Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero
A remarkable number of those in Blue America who hoped for an end to the Bush era on November 2 received the news of his election victory almost as if it had been a physical blow...
Nov 11, 2004 / Jonathan Schell
Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero
As the final week of the campaign season expires (this column goes to press on October 27), George W.
Oct 28, 2004 / Jonathan Schell
Tarantara! Tarantara!
Twenty months ago, when the Bush Administration was steering the country toward war in Iraq, we noted a parallel with another military misadventure, the Spanish-American War, in ...
Oct 14, 2004 / Jonathan Schell and John Maxwell Hamilton
Potemkin Government Potemkin Government
The longer the Bush Administration is in office, the clearer it becomes that it has a disordered relationship not just with one aspect of the world or another, such as the war in...
Oct 7, 2004 / Jonathan Schell
Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero
Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, once a supporter of the war in Iraq, has been rethinking his position.
Sep 23, 2004 / Jonathan Schell
Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero
Why does the United States--born in a people's war for national independence from the greatest empire of its time--have such a difficult time understanding the people's wars of i...
Sep 16, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell