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January 24, 2005 Issue

Amy Wilentz speaks with Amos Oz, Christian Parenti investigates the explosion of poppy farming in Afghanistan and Stuart Klawans reviews …

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Editorial

Passings

At the close of the old year this magazine lost three contributors, all distinguished and influential public intellectuals who brought passion and erudition to the search f...

Letter From Ground Zero

As I followed the initial coverage of the tsunami in the Indian Ocean, I was reminded of a time in the early1980s when I spent some months researching the effects of a nuclear...

The Hero Within

If many strangers die all at once, as in the tragedy of the tsunami or the Rwanda massacre or a war like the one in Iraq, it is a moral problem, to be dealt with through polit...

The Country Doctor

It's a time of sudden hope in the crisis between the Palestinians and Israelis, a weird time of moderation and calls for renewed negotiations.

Tsunami & US Priorities

As the death toll from the tsunami disaster continued to grow, the Bush Administration scrambled to answer widespread criticism that it responded too slowly and with too littl...

Column

Bittersweet Bomblets

I was listening to Morning Edition on December 30, and up came one of those end-of-the-year heart-warmers that's supposed to make you feel there's hope for this old wor...

Letters

Feature

Books & the Arts

Infinite Jest

This past March, on the closing day of an international literary conference held in Krakow, Poland, an elderly woman stood up before hundreds of scholars and admirers gathered...

And Justice for All

Affirmative action, in theory, is a matter of distributive justice, which is why liberals and progressives tend to look benevolently on it while conservatives and libertarians...

The Hero Within

If many strangers die all at once, as in the tragedy of the tsunami or the Rwanda massacre or a war like the one in Iraq, it is a moral problem, to be dealt with through polit...

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