Straight, Not Narrow Straight, Not Narrow
In the early 1980s, soon after the right-wing grassroots movement gave us a Reagan presidency, I announced that I would be boycotting my straight friends' weddings.
May 13, 2004 / John Scagliotti
The View From Prague The View From Prague
Only on my last day in this hilly, river-spliced city, with such beguiling old world charm and art nouveau elegance that unless you're Kafka a strenuous effort is required to m...
May 13, 2004 / Peter Davis
Conditions of Atrocity Conditions of Atrocity
Even before the Congressional hearings on the criminal abuse of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison, Colin Powell brought up My Lai, the Vietnamese village where, in 1968, Ame...
May 13, 2004 / Robert Jay Lifton
‘Dead Man Walking’ ‘Dead Man Walking’
"The unthinkable is becoming thinkable," neoconservative pundit Robert Kagan despaired recently in the Washington Post.
May 13, 2004 / The Editors
Artists Without Borders Artists Without Borders
Three years ago I saw a work by the late Swiss-German artist Dieter Roth that so captivated me that I am determined to write a book just to be able to reproduce it on the jacke...
May 13, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
The Good War The Good War
For the last three and a half years the Israeli army has deployed American-supplied F-16 fighter jets, Apache helicopters, armored Caterpillar bulldozers and Merkava tanks po...
May 13, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Joel Beinin
Occupation Watch Occupation Watch
One of the hallmarks of the Iraqi occupation is the way that new technologies are changing the face of war. The digital cameras that were employed by the Abu Ghraib photographers...
May 13, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
Darkness Visible Darkness Visible
Shortly after the first anniversary of September 11, when The New Yorker had published a slew of poems memorializing the events of that day--Galway Kinnell's "When the Towers F...
May 13, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Lexi Rudnitsky
Back to the Two Americas Back to the Two Americas
One day after the most recent monthly jobs report showed that 280,000 new jobs were created in April--welcome news, but, the Bush Administration's job record is still dismal and ...
May 13, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel