January 21, 2002 Issue

Feature

Letter From Uzbekistan

Desperate to be rid of a repressive regime, many turn to militant Islam.
Raffi Khatchadourian
Beyond Jihad Vs. McWorld

On terrorism and the new democratic realism.
Benjamin R. Barber
Unforgiven

Amy Bach
A Troubling Sentence

UPDATE, January 14
Bob Burtman

Column

Rudy Giuliani, Triumphant

So Rudy is the person of the year.
We join the world in offering a cheer
To him–a man, some thought, was sent by heaven
To guide us through the shock of 9/11.
At certain times, it now must be conceded,
A paranoid control freak’s just what’s needed.

Calvin Trillin
Johnnie Walker Blackened

That would-be martyr John Walker–the mujahid of Marin County–has done something more than give a bad name to my favorite Scotch whiskey. He has illuminated the utter unfitness of our police and intelligence chiefs for the supreme power they now wish and propose to award themselves. And he has also accidentally exposed the stupidity and nastiness of the Patriot Act.
Christopher Hitchens
Let Down His Rich Pals? Over His Dead Body

Talk about the politics of class struggle. George W. Bush now is apparently willing to give his life to make the rich richer.
Robert Scheer

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