Bringing the Holy War Home Bringing the Holy War Home
There is a link between our own cultural conflicts and the logic of jihad.
Nov 29, 2001 / Feature / Ellen Willis
Times Cries Eke! Buries Al Gore Times Cries Eke! Buries Al Gore
Florida revisited: Schadenfreude amid the carnage of the democratic process.
Nov 29, 2001 / Feature / Gore Vidal
One Problem One Problem
Yes, jury trials in public are a right, Says Cheney. Then he says that in this fight No terrorist deserves that sort of trial, Though otherwise it's certainly our style. Without a trial, though, how do we decide To whom this definition is applied? We grab a guy, but is the guy we've got An undeserving terrorist or not?
Nov 29, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Alien’s Law Alien’s Law
Noncitizens in the United States face an increasingly harsh Ashcroft-run Justice Department.
Nov 29, 2001 / Bruce Shapiro
Jazzing Politics Jazzing Politics
Don Byron and Dave Douglas put the political back into jazz.
Nov 29, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
After the Taliban After the Taliban
Laura Bush might put on a good face for women's rights in Afghanistan, but her husband's handwork works against women in other places.
Nov 29, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt
In Our Orbit In Our Orbit
Reviews of Grace Schulman's The Paintings of Our Lives and Stephen F. Cohen's Failed Crusade.
Nov 29, 2001 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
Can Patriotism Be Compassionate? Can Patriotism Be Compassionate?
Moral concern begins with the local, but shouldn't stop there.
Nov 29, 2001 / Feature / Martha C. Nussbaum
Press Watch Press Watch
The Times fans the flames of public fear around the anthrax attacks.
Nov 29, 2001 / Michael Massing
Marketplace of Ideas or Tag Sale? Marketplace of Ideas or Tag Sale?
A review of Lawrence Lessig's The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in the Connected World.
Nov 29, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Steven Johnson