The North Korean Conundrum The North Korean Conundrum
In the prevailing American stereotype, North Korea is a failing Stalinist dictatorship held together only by the ruthless repression of a mad ruler who dreams of firing nuclear w...
May 20, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Selig S. Harrison
Who Let the Punks Out? Who Let the Punks Out?
The young and the angry mosh the vote for the November election.
May 20, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Kristin V. Jones
The Moral Case Against the Iraq War The Moral Case Against the Iraq War
The crimes at Abu Ghraib are a direct expression of the kind of war we are waging in Iraq.
May 13, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Paul Savoy
Artists Without Borders Artists Without Borders
Three years ago I saw a work by the late Swiss-German artist Dieter Roth that so captivated me that I am determined to write a book just to be able to reproduce it on the jacke...
May 13, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
The Good War The Good War
For the last three and a half years the Israeli army has deployed American-supplied F-16 fighter jets, Apache helicopters, armored Caterpillar bulldozers and Merkava tanks po...
May 13, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Joel Beinin
Darkness Visible Darkness Visible
Shortly after the first anniversary of September 11, when The New Yorker had published a slew of poems memorializing the events of that day--Galway Kinnell's "When the Towers F...
May 13, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Lexi Rudnitsky
Stonewalling on Wilson Stonewalling on Wilson
The publication of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's book, The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies That Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity, affords a fresh opportuni...
May 6, 2004 / Books & the Arts / David Corn
All in the Family? All in the Family?
Despite decades of battering by divorce and the proliferation of single-parent households, the family remains a source of inexhaustible fascination.
May 6, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stanley Aronowitz
Happy 30th Anniversary Discovery/The Nation Happy 30th Anniversary Discovery/The Nation
Blindness and Transparency I can't say. Is it better to close your eyes, or to go unseen?
May 6, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Various Contributors
Evidence of Things Not Seen Evidence of Things Not Seen
My father and most of my uncles fought in World War II. I grew up in the shadow of the war.
May 6, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Chris Hedges