Opening to Cuba Opening to Cuba
"I am here in the hope that we can do business," Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura told a Cuban audience after cutting the ceremonial ribbon with Fidel Castro to open the recent...
Oct 3, 2002 / Peter Kornbluh
But Fear Itself But Fear Itself
It's a scary little world right now. Such wars of careless words. Such panic on every breeze. If Eskimos have a hundred words for snow, we have let bloom a thousand words for f...
Oct 3, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Fighting Terrorism With Democracy Fighting Terrorism With Democracy
We must strengthen institutions that protect us from a national security state.
Oct 3, 2002 / Feature / Richard Rorty
War, Inc. War, Inc.
Expanding the US global military presence is costly to taxpayers but highly profitable for private military contractors.
Oct 3, 2002 / Feature / William D. Hartung, Michelle Ciarrocca, and Frida Berrigan
Pemberly Pemberly
The park was very large. We drove
for some time through a beautiful wood
until the wood ceased, and the house came into view.
Oct 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Rachel Wetzsteon
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
After I saw In the Bedroom, Todd Field's moving film based on Andre Dubus's short story "Killings," I was delighted when a slim volume of Dubus's stories arrived here at The Nati...
Oct 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Hillary Frey
There’s No, No In Your Eyes There’s No, No In Your Eyes
As Sung to Saddam Hussein by George W. Bush
(With apologies to Eddy Howard, and anybody who becomes collateral damage)
Sep 26, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Inheriting the Wind… Inheriting the Wind…
We've endured our own KT-event regarding David Hawkes's review of
Stephen Jay Gould's last book, The Structure of Evolut
Sep 26, 2002
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