April 21, 2003 Issue

Feature

Hors de Combat

She’s the ultimate quick-change artist, with a style that can absorb any trend and an image to match. She’s gone from material girl to S/M maitresse, from power diva to contented mother.
Richard Goldstein
Richard Perle’s Corporate Adventures

Richard Perle’s resignation as chairman of Donald Rumsfeld’s Defense Policy Board on March 27 capped a tumultuous month for the neoconservative who spent the past decade stoking the fires for t
Tim Shorrock
The Naked and the Red

Led by a former Boeing machinist, Las Vegas exotic dancers are talking union.
Marc Cooper
The Reason Why

Bush’s motives have more to do with empire and profit than with liberating Iraq.
George McGovern
The Press and the Myths of War

There is nothing glorious or gallant about combat.
Chris Hedges
Response 3

Ifind David Cortright’s call useful but limiting. The most exciting aspect of the antiwar organizing has been its global reach.
Medea Benjamin
Response 2

The war is just two weeks old, yet the Bush Administration has accomplished the unprecedented isolation of the United States worldwide, even from several of its historic allies.
Bill Fletcher Jr.
Response 1

David Cortright has laid out many aspects of an agenda to help the US peace movement move from the immediate work of trying to stop this war, to continuing to broaden the reach of our movement
Phyllis Bennis and John Cavanagh
What We Do Now

As the Bush Administration continues its illegal and unjust military invasion of Iraq, we must steel ourselves for the difficult days that lie ahead.
David Cortright
The Generals’ Revolt

At no point in modern American history has the civilian leadership of the nation’s military establishment come under as much criticism from serving military officers as is the case now regardin
Michael T. Klare

Editorial

The Doha Follies

Of the more than 700 journalists who have registered with the CentCom Coalition Media Center here, two have emerged as celebrities.
Michael Massing
Letter From Ground Zero

A Vesuvius of violence has erupted from the dead center of American life, the executive branch of the government.
Jonathan Schell
Passings

In its tribute to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who died on March 26, The Economist mentions that his office washroom displayed a framed cover of the September 22, 1979, issue of The Natio
The Editors

TV’s Conflicted Experts

Perhaps Americans can be excused for imagining that “regime change” in Iraq would be a cakewalk.
Daniel Benaim , Priyanka Motaparthy and Vishesh Kumar

The Washington Wars

By the start of the third week of war, Bush was bogged down in Mesopotamia and Washington.
David Corn

Lawyers Keep Out

Because September 11 “changed everything,” it hasn’t always been easy to find an objective yardstick by which to judge the Bush Administration’s tactics in the “war on terrorism.” But the Admin
David Cole

Rumsfeld Should Go

This editorial was originally published in the April 21, 2003 issue of The Nation.
The Editors

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The View From the Throne

After carefully crafted U.S.
Robert Scheer

Subway Fears, Bioterrorism and Tetanus Shots

Dear Dr. Marc,
Dr. Marc Siegel

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 & World Report and The New Republic. This may have made it appear as if Alterman was addressing the issue of Jewish “editors” in general with regard to media coverage and Israel, rather than merely the two men he cited.
Eric Alterman

In the Waiting Room

“We are in a funding emergency today,” read the e-mail from the New York Abortion Access Fund.
Katha Pollitt

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
Calvin Trillin

Books & the Arts

Hors de Combat

She’s the ultimate quick-change artist, with a style that can absorb any trend and an image to match. She’s gone from material girl to S/M maitresse, from power diva to contented mother.
Richard Goldstein

Death in Helsinki

OK, let’s say that life goes on.
Stuart Klawans

Dangerous Liaisons

He says he is not a fighter–or rather, the narrator says it; he’s “an onlooker,” someone who steps aside, “frail,” “not the savior of the world,” not a “prophet,” speaking only to himself, liv
Joseph McElroy

Bloomsburied in China

A divide exists between Chinese literature and movies written, produced, read or viewed in the West, and those written and produced in mainlaind China.
Patricia Laurence

Diversity and Its Malcontents

David L. Kirp has chronicled the Mount Laurel, New Jersey, history in Almost Home: America’s Love-Hate Relationship with Community (Princeton).
David Kirp

Letter From Ground Zero

A Vesuvius of violence has erupted from the dead center of American life, the executive branch of the government.
Jonathan Schell

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Letters

Diversity, Democrats and War

We’ve received numerous letters regarding William Hartung’s “Keeping Hope Alive,”, Al Ross and Lee Corkorinos’s Our Readers

Letters

IRAN: THREAT OF A WIDER WAR

Needham, Mass.
Our Readers and Mansour Farhang

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April 21, 2003 Issue

Feature

She’s the ultimate quick-change artist, with a style that can absorb any trend and an image to match. She’s gone from material girl to S/M maitresse, from power diva to contented mother.

Richard Perle’s resignation as chairman of Donald Rumsfeld’s Defense Policy Board on March 27 capped a tumultuous month for the neoconservative who spent the past decade stoking the fires for t

Led by a former Boeing machinist, Las Vegas exotic dancers are talking union.

Bush’s motives have more to do with empire and profit than with liberating Iraq.

There is nothing glorious or gallant about combat.

Ifind David Cortright’s call useful but limiting. The most exciting aspect of the antiwar organizing has been its global reach.

The war is just two weeks old, yet the Bush Administration has accomplished the unprecedented isolation of the United States worldwide, even from several of its historic allies.

David Cortright has laid out many aspects of an agenda to help the US peace movement move from the immediate work of trying to stop this war, to continuing to broaden the reach of our movement

As the Bush Administration continues its illegal and unjust military invasion of Iraq, we must steel ourselves for the difficult days that lie ahead.

At no point in modern American history has the civilian leadership of the nation’s military establishment come under as much criticism from serving military officers as is the case now regardin

Editorial

Of the more than 700 journalists who have registered with the CentCom Coalition Media Center here, two have emerged as celebrities.

A Vesuvius of violence has erupted from the dead center of American life, the executive branch of the government.

In its tribute to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who died on March 26, The Economist mentions that his office washroom displayed a framed cover of the September 22, 1979, issue of The Natio

Perhaps Americans can be excused for imagining that “regime change” in Iraq would be a cakewalk.

By the start of the third week of war, Bush was bogged down in Mesopotamia and Washington.

Because September 11 “changed everything,” it hasn’t always been easy to find an objective yardstick by which to judge the Bush Administration’s tactics in the “war on terrorism.” But the Admin

This editorial was originally published in the April 21, 2003 issue of The Nation.

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Column

After carefully crafted U.S.

Dear Dr. Marc,

“We are in a funding emergency today,” read the e-mail from the New York Abortion Access Fund.

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

Books & the Arts

She’s the ultimate quick-change artist, with a style that can absorb any trend and an image to match. She’s gone from material girl to S/M maitresse, from power diva to contented mother.

OK, let’s say that life goes on.

He says he is not a fighter–or rather, the narrator says it; he’s “an onlooker,” someone who steps aside, “frail,” “not the savior of the world,” not a “prophet,” speaking only to himself, liv

A divide exists between Chinese literature and movies written, produced, read or viewed in the West, and those written and produced in mainlaind China.

David L. Kirp has chronicled the Mount Laurel, New Jersey, history in Almost Home: America’s Love-Hate Relationship with Community (Princeton).

A Vesuvius of violence has erupted from the dead center of American life, the executive branch of the government.

The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

Letters

We’ve received numerous letters regarding William Hartung’s “Keeping Hope Alive,”, Al Ross and Lee Corkorinos’s Our Readers

IRAN: THREAT OF A WIDER WAR Needham, Mass.

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

IRAN: THREAT OF A WIDER WAR

Needham, Mass.