Final Cut on Final Solution? Final Cut on Final Solution?
Since you presumably know the basics about the Holocaust--if you don't, I would suggest that a movie review is no place to learn them--I will jump to the main question about The ...
Apr 20, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Art of the Free and Brave Art of the Free and Brave
A woman I know once agreed to take a young Asian child to visit a school in New York, to which her distant parents considered sending her.
Apr 20, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
In Moby-Dick, in the chapter "The Fossil Whale," Ishmael proclaims: "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme." The theme of Joyce Carol Oates's Blonde--well, it'...
Apr 20, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Lawrence Joseph
Hawking Vietnam Hawking Vietnam
With the twenty-fifth anniversary of the American withdrawal from Vietnam hard upon us, readers and viewers may well be treated to a multitude of reprises of the arguments surrou...
Apr 20, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Richard Falk
The New Civic Globalism The New Civic Globalism
During the eighties many activists in the United States and elsewhere embraced a simple but evocative slogan: "think globally, act locally." The message: In acting at the local l...
Apr 20, 2000 / Feature / Kumi Naidoo
A Green Foreign Policy A Green Foreign Policy
The power of the market, and of the giant corporations that dominate it, is the overriding political fact of our time.
Apr 20, 2000 / Feature / Mark Hertsgaard
Humanitarian Intervention: A Forum Humanitarian Intervention: A Forum
Holly Burkhalter Holly Burkhalter has more than twenty years' experience in the human rights field.
Apr 20, 2000 / Feature / Various Contributors
The American Ascendancy The American Ascendancy
The turn of the millennium provided yet another occasion to celebrate a triumphant American Century.
Apr 20, 2000 / Feature / Bruce Cumings
A Foreign Policy for the Common Citizen A Foreign Policy for the Common Citizen
A quarter-century after the end of the Vietnam War, and eleven years after the collapse of the Berlin wall, it has become commonplace to say that we Americans have no consensus o...
The ‘Shame’ Game The ‘Shame’ Game
When we last visited New York Times foreign affairs pundit Thomas Friedman during last year's Seattle protests, he was attacking critics of the antidemocratic World Trade Organiz...
Apr 20, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman