Books and Ideas

Too Late for Empire Too Late for Empire

Thirty years after Watergate, we again face a constitutional crisis at home and a misconceived war abroad. The United States will remain a helpless giant until we finally learn tha...

Jul 27, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell

Reading Less Bad News From Iraq Reading Less Bad News From Iraq

The papers simply cannot find the space.

Jul 27, 2006 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Guernica, Again Guernica, Again

The targeting of civilians in Gaza and Lebanon summons the image of Picasso's wrenching mural that memorialized innocents caught in the crossfire.

Jul 20, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas von Hoffman

Questions for Katha Pollitt Questions for Katha Pollitt

Katha Pollitt answers questions about feminism, politics and her new book, Virginity or Death! And Other Pressing Social Issues of Our Times.

Jul 17, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Emily Amick

Short Takes Short Takes

Stick Out Your Tongue. By Ma Jian. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 93 pp. $16.

Jul 13, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood and Katherine Ryder

Empire as a Way of Life Empire as a Way of Life

Two new histories of British imperial rule in India take the narrow view. In fact, the scandal of empire can be isolated neither to Europe nor to the past.

Jul 13, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Linda Colley

Legal Weapon Legal Weapon

International law offers protection to the oppressed. In Are Women Human?, feminist legal scholar Catharine A. MacKinnon exposes the hypocrisy of not extending the same protectio...

Jul 13, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Martha C. Nussbaum

A Summary of Bush Administration Statements on Its Conduct of the ‘War on Terror’ A Summary of Bush Administration Statements on Its Conduct of the ‘War on Terror’

There's not a lot anyone needs to know.

Jul 13, 2006 / Column / Calvin Trillin

David ‘Duff’ Dretzin David ‘Duff’ Dretzin

David "Duff" Dretzin had a big heart, a social conscience and a keen sense of humor. He will be missed.

Jul 13, 2006 / The Editors

The American Political Tradition The American Political Tradition

American foreign policy is shaped by a myth of national righteousness. In two new books, Peter Beinart abuses history to suggest liberals embrace this myth, while Stephen Kinzer us...

Jul 10, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Andrew J. Bacevich

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