Stephen Holmes

Stephen Holmes teaches at the New York University School of Law. His most recent book is The Matador's Cape: America's Reckless Response to Terror (Cambridge).

Currently

  • Vice

    May 27, 2009

    Assessing the stealth, subterfuge and delusion of the Cheney vice presidency.

2007

  • Apocalypse Now?

    October 11, 2007

    According to Chalmers Johnson, Bush's imperial presidency may be the final chapter in the collapse of American democracy.

2006

  • John Yoo's Tortured Logic

    April 13, 2006

    The Berkeley law professor's carte blanche constitutionalism was a gift to the Bush Administration, offering legalistic justifications for lawless behavior.

2005

  • The War of the Liberals

    October 26, 2005

    Power and the Idealists clings to the notion that the Iraq War was waged for humanitarian ideals, while At the Point of a Gun documents the inner torment of humanitarian interventionists who, without forgetting Rwanda and Bosnia, have gazed into the Iraqi abyss.

2004

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Blogs

» The Notion

Palin as the Church Lady | Going Rogue book tour brings passive-aggressive rightwing Christianity to the fore.
Leslie Savan
41 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Friday | The "Second Amendment" sale; the raving paranoids of the right.
Eric Alterman

» Editor's Cut

An Alternative to Escalation in Afghanistan | President Obama is expected to make a decision regarding his Afghanistan strategy after Thanksgiving.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
53 Comments

» The Beat

House Rebels Force Fed Audit, Real Economy Onto Agenda | Frank's Financial Services Committee becomes focal point for revolts by members who worry about powerful banks and unemployment.
John Nichols
27 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

Chongqing: Socialism in One City | China is managing the most important event in the world: the urbanization of half a billion people. Fast.
Robert Dreyfuss
204 Comments

» Act Now!

Toward Copenhagen | A guide to joining the movement against climate change.
Peter Rothberg
59 Comments