It’s Only a Beginning It’s Only a Beginning
Nearly four years have elapsed since that merry month of May when France and the whole world were taken aback by a sudden and momentous upheaval.
Apr 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Sharon Wears Oppressor’s Cloak Sharon Wears Oppressor’s Cloak
What is the fundamental difference between Slobodan Milosevic and Ariel Sharon? The former is on trial for war crimes, while the latter still leads an occupying army.
Apr 16, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
It’s Time to Turn the Farm Bill Debate Into a Food Fight It’s Time to Turn the Farm Bill Debate Into a Food Fight
Would someone in Congress please, please, please propose changing the name of the "farm bill" to the "food bill"? Maybe if the issue at hand had a more dramatic name the media a...
Apr 15, 2002 / John Nichols
Talking With Jeff Tweedy Talking With Jeff Tweedy
Jeff Tweedy may be best known to Nation readers as Billy Bragg's collaborator (along with his band Wilco) on the Mermaid Avenue recordings of recent years--two great albums that s...
Apr 11, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Hillary Frey
Unsigning the ICC Unsigning the ICC
History will record April 11, 2002, as a day of enormous significance in the effort to achieve the rule of law in the conduct of international affairs. It marks the day the Treaty...
Apr 11, 2002 / John B. Anderson
Witness in the Territories Witness in the Territories
In the last days of March, at the end of a five-day voyage with seven fellow members of the International Parliament of Writers (IPW) through the battered archipelago of reservat...
Apr 11, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Russell Banks
Sharon Hawks Down? Sharon Hawks Down?
On April 3, a high-octane collection of thirty-three conservatives sent George W. Bush a letter urging him to lend Washington's "full support to Israel as it seeks to root out the...
Apr 11, 2002 / David Corn
The Undertaker’s Art, Exhumed The Undertaker’s Art, Exhumed
"It's a great mistake not to feel pleased when you have the chance," a rich, disfigured spinster advises a frail, well-mannered boy in The Shrimp and the Anemone, the first novel ...
Apr 11, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Caleb Crain
The Show They Love to Hate The Show They Love to Hate
There is an overall disposition to approach each Whitney Biennial as a State of the Art World Address in the form of an exhibition, organized by a curatorial directorate, present...
Apr 11, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Lonesome Cowboy Lonesome Cowboy
On April 11, as John Anderson notes in this issue, the International Criminal Court was scheduled to go into effect after being ratified by the required sixty nations. Although Bi...
Apr 11, 2002 / The Editors