Books and Ideas

The Moral Case Against the Iraq War The Moral Case Against the Iraq War

The crimes at Abu Ghraib are a direct expression of the kind of war we are waging in Iraq.

May 13, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Paul Savoy

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

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

Stonewalling on Wilson Stonewalling on Wilson

The publication of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's book, The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies That Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity, affords a fresh opportuni...

May 6, 2004 / Books & the Arts / David Corn

All in the Family? All in the Family?

Despite decades of battering by divorce and the proliferation of single-parent households, the family remains a source of inexhaustible fascination.

May 6, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stanley Aronowitz

Happy 30th Anniversary Discovery/The Nation Happy 30th Anniversary Discovery/The Nation

Blindness and Transparency I can't say. Is it better to close your eyes, or to go unseen?

May 6, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Various Contributors

Native Son Native Son

At the height of the Great Game, when adventure-crazed young men from Britain and Russia stealthily documented the wild miles and tribes of Central Asia, an American and an Eng...

May 6, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Leela Jacinto

The Unfinished Revolution The Unfinished Revolution

I was 25 when I and the rest of black South Africa were eligible to vote for the first time. South Africa celebrated the tenth anniversary of that event this April.

Apr 29, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Sean Jacobs

Unforgettable Unforgettable

"This is a book written in the presence of music." So begins Geoffrey O'Brien's sprawling memoir-cum-critical essay, and the reader is tempted to ask: What book isn't?

Apr 29, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Jody Rosen

The Descent Into Barbarism The Descent Into Barbarism

Few of those who followed the David Irving libel trial held in London three years ago could avoid being struck by the calm but towering presence of the British historian Richar...

Apr 22, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Abraham Brumberg

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