Can We Talk? Can We Talk?
CORRECTION: When this column was originally published, a fact-checking error caused the word "owner" to be removed from a reference to the Jewish "owner-editors" of U.S. News &...
Apr 3, 2003 / Column / Eric Alterman
Subway Fears, Bioterrorism and Tetanus Shots Subway Fears, Bioterrorism and Tetanus Shots
Dear Dr. Marc,
Apr 3, 2003 / Column / Dr. Marc Siegel
On the Resignation of Richard Perle, Captain of The Sissy Hawk Brigade, On the Resignation of Richard Perle, Captain of The Sissy Hawk Brigade,
And so for Richard Perle was writ
The second graf of his obit:
This soaring bird of hawkish myth
Was grounded when discovered with
His talon in the cookie jar
Apr 3, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
‘Terror’ as the Ultimate Excuse ‘Terror’ as the Ultimate Excuse
"My own government," Martin Luther King Jr.
Apr 1, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
On Richard Perle, Lobbyist, Businessman And, Perhaps Not Coincidentally, Chairman of the Defense Policy Board On Richard Perle, Lobbyist, Businessman And, Perhaps Not Coincidentally, Chairman of the Defense Policy Board
The plans to start this war were laid
Within the Sissy Hawk Brigade--
A band of Vietnam evaders
All puffed up now as tough crusaders.
Mar 27, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Chickens in a Darkening Sky Chickens in a Darkening Sky
Suddenly the sky is dark with chickens coming home to roost, and bedtime reading is Thucydides' account of the disastrous Athenian siege of Syracuse.
Mar 27, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Codes of Etiquette Codes of Etiquette
Recently, Nilas Martins, principal dancer at the New York City Ballet, was stopped in Washington, DC, by gun-wielding policemen.
Mar 27, 2003 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
The Wraps Come Off Bush’s Colonialist Agenda The Wraps Come Off Bush’s Colonialist Agenda
The Bush Administration's plan to keep several hundred thousand US and British troops for years in a divided, heavily armed Muslim country will make all Americans "targets of opp...
Mar 25, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
The Loyal Opposition The Loyal Opposition
The Senate Democrats sat mum,
Like doves afraid to coo.
So history will soon record
This war as their war too.
Mar 20, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
War. What Is It Good For? War. What Is It Good For?
By the time you read this, the invasion of Iraq may have begun--or it may be over.
Mar 20, 2003 / Column / Katha Pollitt