A Two-Pronged Approach to the Afghan People A Two-Pronged Approach to the Afghan People
By night our missiles rain on them, By day we drop them bread. They should be grateful for the food-- Unless, of course, they're dead.
Oct 11, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
New World Order New World Order
As I write, the world is filled with fear. I am having one of those reactions that psychologists describe as a stress response. I suppose I'm not alone, though. A friend calls an...
Oct 11, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Dry Up the Pools of Discontent Dry Up the Pools of Discontent
The bombing part is easy. Not of course on the civilians, the "collateral damage" likely to be killed in unseemly large numbers, as they were during the Gulf War.
Oct 10, 2001 / Column / Robert Scheer
Fate and Fundamentalism Fate and Fundamentalism
The distinguishing feature of most fundamentalist belief systems is a literal conception of the relation between words and meaning.
Oct 9, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Blaming bin Laden First Blaming bin Laden First
Just once more, and then we'll really have to get on with more pressing business. I could subscribe myself at any time to any of the following statements: § A...
Oct 4, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Where Are the Women? Where Are the Women?
Are there any people on earth more wretched than the women of Afghanistan? As if poverty, hunger, disease, drought, ruined cities and a huge refugee crisis weren't bad enou...
Oct 4, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Indispensable Indispensable
(An old Nat "King" Cole song, as sung by Rudy "King" Giuliani) Indispensable, that's what I am. I'm an icon now, like Uncle Sam. I'm the rock this town is built up...
Oct 4, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
A Rejoinder to Noam Chomsky A Rejoinder to Noam Chomsky
The two related questions before the house are these. Can the attacks of September 11 be compared to an earlier outrage committed by Americans? And should they be so compared? ...
Oct 4, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Thugs Make Unreliable Allies Thugs Make Unreliable Allies
Are we losing it? Have the recent acts of terrorism caused us to cut our moorings in a flood of outrage and frustration?
Oct 3, 2001 / Column / Robert Scheer
And Now for a Note of Good Cheer And Now for a Note of Good Cheer
I've been surprised, here in Petrolia, listening to some people say they're afraid. Afraid of what? I ask. Remember, even in the days when the imminent possibility of nuclear hol...
Sep 27, 2001 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn