Biodiversity and You Biodiversity and You
As the Earth's population surges toward the 7 billion mark, the following twist on an old maxim perhaps best applies: A single birth is a joyous occasion. A billion births is a...
Feb 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Tatiana Siegel
What’s a Neoliberal to Do? What’s a Neoliberal to Do?
In the 1960s it seemed as if the Third World was in flames, fueled by anti-imperialist struggles from Cuba to Vietnam, Bolivia to Algeria.
Feb 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Greg Grandin
Confronting Empire Confronting Empire
So how do we resist "Empire"? The good news is that we're not doing too badly. There have been major victories. Here in Latin America you have had so many--in Bolivia, you have...
Feb 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arundhati Roy
Poets Against the War Poets Against the War
Here The Nation presents a few of the works posted on "Poets Against the War," (www.poetsagainstthewar.org), the website set up by Sam Hamill, poet and editor, when he ca...
Feb 19, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Alfred Corn, Sam Hamill, W.S. Merwin, Maxine Kumin, and Rita Dove
Apartheid: The Musical Apartheid: The Musical
If you've never watched Nelson Mandela dance, then you should know that he does a modified Locomotion, pumping his elbows like pistons to the immense, loving amusement of his p...
Feb 19, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
Though there have been scattered signs of renewed interest in Dwight Macdonald--a biography in 1994, a collection of letters in 2002--all but a fraction of his own writing mold...
Feb 14, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Shainin
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
Who’s in Charge? Who’s in Charge?
On October 4, 2001--less than a month after that horrific day--George W. Bush and the members of his National Security Council were nailing down the details of the coming war i...
Feb 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Corn
The ‘Indivisible Four’ The ‘Indivisible Four’
The Grey Art Gallery, which occupies the former site of the Museum of Living Art in the main building of New York University on Washington Square, is celebrating its legendary ...
Feb 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
One Step Removed One Step Removed
Those of us who have followed the New York City Ballet and the repertory of the world's greatest choreographer, George Balanchine, since the mid-1950s are filled with spine-tin...
Feb 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Diane Rafferty