Missile Shield or Holy Grail? Missile Shield or Holy Grail?
Nike-Zeus, Nike-X, Sentinel, Safeguard, Star Wars, X-ray lasers, spaced-based neutron particle beams, Brilliant Pebbles, Ground-Based Midcourse National Missile Defense, Midcours...
Jan 10, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Walter C. Uhler
Let Down His Rich Pals? Over His Dead Body Let Down His Rich Pals? Over His Dead Body
Talk about the politics of class struggle. George W. Bush now is apparently willing to give his life to make the rich richer.
Jan 10, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Tattletales for an Open Society Tattletales for an Open Society
"Former Yankee virtues, common sense, scepticism if not suspicion of authority, a belief in the mastery of the future, have been driven underground.
Jan 10, 2002 / Various Contributors
Tattletales for an Open Society Tattletales for an Open Society
Read Senator Joe Lieberman's letter to ACTA. Read comments from other new members of Tattletales for an Open Society. Read Eric Scigliano's Naming-and un-naming-Names.
Jan 9, 2002 / Martin J. Sherwin
Unforgiven Unforgiven
On August 21 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, a struggling oil-refinery town on the Texas border, Wilbert Rideau walked to the center of the modern courtroom, hobbled by shackles. The...
Beyond Jihad Vs. McWorld Beyond Jihad Vs. McWorld
On terrorism and the new democratic realism.
Jan 3, 2002 / Feature / Benjamin R. Barber
Don’t Call It Night Don’t Call It Night
In the United States the writer tends to become an entrepreneur, competing with other literary vendors marketing their characters and language, their humor or drama, to a skeptic...
Jan 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Morris Dickstein
GE and the Hudson GE and the Hudson
Last spring Richard Pollak asked in these pages, "Is GE Mightier Than the Hudson?" (May 28, 2001). Given the Environmental Protection Agency's December 4 decision to dredge the P...
Jan 3, 2002 / The Editors