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December 16, 2002 Issue
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Editorial
Hunger USA
Tony Hall, just before leaving Congress in September, sat in his office in Longworth House Office Building and thought of something that had stuck with him since a trip to A...
Quiet in Hollywood
The Quiet American, which recently opened for a two-week run in a couple of theaters in New York and Los Angeles, illustrates just how far Hollywood self-censorship h...
The Grubman
The financial scandals continue to produce more outrageous revelations, but lately they come with lurid personal details more appropriate to bottom-dwelling tabloids than th...
Containing Saddam
Critics of America's plans to oust Saddam Hussein militarily have mounted powerful arguments, but not one has articulated a coherent nonmilitary strategy to bring about the ...
What Price Security?
Now, here's what the deal's supposed to be: In exchange for greater security you give up certain rights.
Column
Want a Cover-Up Expert? Kissinger’s Your Man
The President clearly does not want to know the truth about September 11.
Total Information, Total Confusion
So let's join Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology Edward "Pete" Aldridge at a recent Pentagon press briefing, where he's addressing concern...
Ask the Relativist
Dear Dr. Madlaw,
As a newly elected member of Congress, I am appalled at the high cost
of living in Washington. What's a hard-working public serva...
Books & the Arts
What Are They Reading?
Secret societies are manna for conspiracy theorists, and few are more secret or more conspiracy-nourishing than Yale's Skull and Bones.
The Call of the Junco Bird
An English woman I've never met
calls to read me her new poem
about the little Texas junco bird
whose cry sounded to the early settlers
Wheeling My Father Through the Alzheimer’s Ward
Here where everyone forgets everything,
including where they are
or what they are fighting to remember,
Rethinking the Movement
As any casual observer of mega-bookstore shelves knows, the history of the modern civil rights movement is a well-studied field.
‘Obscure as That Heaven of the Jews’
In the rabbi's parable a lame one climbs
Onto a blind one's shoulders and together
They take the fruit of the garden of the Lord.
The New Apartheid
Ashwin Desai's "We Are the Poors" is one of the best books yet on globalization and resistance.
Quiet in Hollywood
The Quiet American, which recently opened for a two-week run in a couple of theaters in New York and Los Angeles, illustrates just how far Hollywood self-censorship h...
