Nothing Funny About These Cartoons Nothing Funny About These Cartoons
Muslims across Europe have taken offense to the Dutch editorial cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed; some countries have boycotted Danish goods and a few are up in arms--litera...
Feb 2, 2006 / Christine Smallwood
Buckley Hearts Osama Buckley Hearts Osama
From the first item of National Review's "The Week" section, 2/13/06: In Osama's latest tape, he touts an obscure left-wing American book and borrows lines from ...
Feb 2, 2006 / Ari Berman
Freedom’s Imperial March Freedom’s Imperial March
The left-liberal blogosphere has been in hyper-drive critiquing Bush's SOTU address since last night. As I'm teaching a class on US empire, I couldn't resist having my students rea...
Feb 2, 2006 / Richard Kim
Heidegger Made Kosher Heidegger Made Kosher
Two new books explore the work of philosophers Emmanuel Levinas and Martin Heidegger.
Feb 2, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Richard Wolin
The End of the Internet? The End of the Internet?
Telephone and cable companies are crafting strategies to transform the free and open Internet to a privately run service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do onli...
Feb 1, 2006 / Feature / Jeffrey Chester
Curing Fanaticism Curing Fanaticism
Amos Oz reflects on the political and diplomatic implications of Hamas's recent victory and its impact on opportunities for peace.
Feb 1, 2006 / Feature / Jon Wiener
The War on T-Shirts The War on T-Shirts
Minutes before the President of the United States would tell the Congress how much he appreciates "responsible criticism and counsel," the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq was d...
Feb 1, 2006 / John Nichols
Enron’s Enablers Enron’s Enablers
As the Enron trial unfolds, it's depressing that Phil and Wendy Gramm, the company's political enablers, are going unpunished and uncriticized.
Feb 1, 2006 / Column / Robert Scheer
Decoding the State of the Union Decoding the State of the Union
Never misunderestimate George W. Bush. Here's a President who's gutted the Treasury, eroded the environment, divided our society, ruined our reputation, frayed our military, unde...
Feb 1, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bush’s Simple State of the Union–and the World Bush’s Simple State of the Union–and the World
Simple works.
For George W. Bush, at least. In this year's State of the Union address, Bush led with his weakness--the Iraq War--and stuck to the un...
Feb 1, 2006 / David Corn