A Peaceful Justice?

Liza Featherstone

Signs of the Times

Protests against symbols of capitalism find themselves in a transformed landscape.

Naomi Klein

The Clash of Ignorance

Labels like "Islam" and "the West" serve only to confuse us about a disorderly reality.

Edward W. Said

All in the Name of Security

The Administration is using September 11 to curtail our civil liberties.

Bruce Shapiro

Private Censorship

As we survey the cultural landscape after the atrocities of September 11, we ought to note the special danger posed to free expression by media concentration.

Mark Crispin Miller

NYC’s Mayoral Muddle

Michael Tomasky

Nation Notes

the Editors

Hitting Terrorism’s Roots

the Editors

Press Watch

Michael Massing

Policy Profiteers

John Nichols

Letter From Ground Zero: October 4, 2001

Our own ‘phony war.’

Jonathan Schell

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.

Robert Scheer

Blaming bin Laden First

Christopher Hitchens

Where Are the Women?

Katha Pollitt

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 upon.
Après moi, no one could carry on.
No one but me
Could possibly be
(bah, bah, bah)
Indispensable, the mayor for life.
No one worries now about my wife.
So, you see, I've simply got to stay.
I'll be mayor forever and a day.
And I'll still be indispensable then.

Calvin Trillin

The Complex Fate of the Jewish-American Writer

Morris Dickstein

Season’s Greetings

B. Ruby Rich

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