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January 3, 2000 Issue

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Editorial

Report From New York

As workers and holiday shoppers spilled out of Manhattan's midtown skyscrapers and stores during rush hour last week, they were confronted with an unusual sight: Several tho...

Roane Carey

Joseph Heller

Nelson Algren's 1961 review of Catch-22 is at www.thenation.com.

Christopher Hitchens

Seattle From the Seine

"Le monde n'est pas une marchandise"--the world is not a commodity--proclaimed the large banner in the Parisian demonstration against the WTO.

Daniel Singer

Column

The Prattle on Seattle

The ideological rigidity that governs punditocracy trade debate transcends right/left dichotomies.

Eric Alterman

On the Latest Republican Debate

Calvin Trillin

Letters

The ‘Single Standard’ in Kosovo

Cambridge, Mass.

Christopher Hitchens and Noam Chomsky

Feature

John McCain’s Vietnam

Though he suffered as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, he seems blind to the suffering inflicted on that nation by America's brutal and misguided war.

Bob Dreyfuss

Books & the Arts

Lord High Executioners

He looks like a pear that's going bad. Tall, corpulent and much the worse for gravity, W.S.

Stuart Klawans

What Price, Palestine?

The plan to take Israeli athletes hostage during the 1972 Munich Olympic Games was conceived at a cafe on the Piazza della Rotonda in Rome, in the shadow of the Pantheon and t...

Michael Young

Was Communism Reformable?

Never in history until the Soviet Union collapsed eight years ago had a great empire gone through such cataclysmic changes and accepted such staggering territorial losses with...

Robert V. Daniels