Violence, Hannah Arendt said, destroys power. The United States is moving quickly down this path.
Many Russians who fled Brezhnev’s USSR because they could not speak freely are in a state of shock in today’s America. One is Roman Kaplan, an intellectual from Leningrad (now St.
Though polls consistently show a majority of Americans supporting freedom of choice, abortion rights are facing their greatest attack since the Supreme Court decision Roe V.Jonah Engle
Now that the regime of Saddam Hussein has been overthrown, the Bush Administration, like a submarine that, having successfully sunk one ship, resurfaces its periscope to find others, is looking
One of the many casualties of our national obsession with the war on Iraq is the emerging crisis of America’s public colleges and universities.
It was the best of wars. It was the worst of wars. But did the war in Iraq change anyone’s mind?
The latest crisis with North Korea appears to be about the North finally declaring that it has the bomb, but in fact it is about the Bush Administration’s inability to hide or control sharp int
With the close of the Iraq war–at least its first phase–the Bush Administration has another opportunity to seek a lasting solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict and to mend relations with
Compare the following two statements currently floating ’round the blogosphere:
Tom Friedman doesn’t care if the United States ever finds weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
So maybe we will find them yet,
Well stashed away in some place clever.
Or were they just destroyed in March?
Or never there at all? Whatever.
The Nation announces the winners of Discovery/The Nation, the
Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize of the Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd
Street Y.Various Contributors
International cinema has an irresistible new pair of reprobates: middle-aged brothers who can do no right in their lives and no wrong before the camera.
I didn’t have to wait long for Ziad, the plumber, to come to my house. It had been a year since the current Palestinian intifada broke out in September 2000, and unemployment was at record leve