Lula’s Moment Lula’s Moment
Brazil's revolution of the possible.
Feb 20, 2003 / Feature / Marc Cooper and Tim Frasca
On the Backlash Against the Perfidious French On the Backlash Against the Perfidious French
They're relegated to the side. This role--which they cannot abide, Which torments Frenchmen day and night-- Can make them do things out of spite.
Feb 19, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Against the Israeli Academic Boycott Against the Israeli Academic Boycott
"Among the Judenrat wannabes is your old friend and mine, Neve Gordon," wrote a Haifa University professor in one of his articles.
Feb 14, 2003 / Feature / Neve Gordon
Republic or Empire? Republic or Empire?
As the senior American diplomat in Baghdad during Desert Shield, I advocated a muscular US response to Saddam's brutal annexation of Kuwait in flagrant violation of the United ...
Feb 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Joseph Wilson
Venezuela’s Media Coup Venezuela’s Media Coup
Poor Endy Chávez, outfielder for the Navegantes del Magallanes, one of Venezuela's big baseball teams. Every time he comes up to bat, the local TV sportscasters start in...
Feb 13, 2003 / Column / Naomi Klein
Letter From Iraq Letter From Iraq
Resigned to war, even government opponents say they'll fight their attackers.
Feb 13, 2003 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
Radio Ujjas Radio Ujjas
This article is based on a report originally produced for National Public Radio's On the Media.
Feb 9, 2003 / Feature / Miranda Kennedy
Landless, Jobless, But Not Hopeless Landless, Jobless, But Not Hopeless
The day after the World Social Forum dialogues, I visited an encampment of landless people squatting in garbage-wrap tents alongside the road an hour from Porto Alegre.
Feb 9, 2003 / Feature / Tom Hayden
A ‘Good Man’ Is Not So Hard to Find A ‘Good Man’ Is Not So Hard to Find
I was standing in line for Bowling for Columbine in Brussels not long ago with two writer/editor friends, when a 15-or-so-year-old Belgian boy in front of us turned around and ...
Feb 6, 2003 / Column / Eric Alterman
Genet’s Palestinian Revolution Genet’s Palestinian Revolution
This essay will appear as an introduction in New York Review Books' new edition of Prisoner of Love (February 2003).
Feb 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Ahdaf Soueif