September 20, 2004 Issue

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When Red Meets Blue

A bipartisan dialogue in this election year? In New York City? During the Republican convention?! We always knew those folks at The New School were a little nutty.
Ari Berman
Now Hear This!

A once-sleepy population of artists and their fans has emerged as a loud and active proponent of political change.
Hillary Frey
The Optimism of Uncertainty

The metaphor is deliberate; life is a gamble. Not to play is to foreclose any chance of winning.
Howard Zinn
The Gates of Hope

This article was adapted from The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen’s Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear (Basic Books, www.theimpossible.org).
Victoria Safford
Hope for Human Rights

This article was adapted from The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen’s Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear (Basic Books, www.theimpossible.org).
Kenneth Roth
In Full Bloom

Adapted from Everything We Love Can Be Saved, copyright 1997 by Alice Walker. Used by permission of Random House, Inc.
Alice Walker
The Sukkah of Shalom

Part of this essay appeared in From the Ashes: A Spiritual Response to the Attack on America, by the editors of Beliefnet (Rodale).
Arthur Waskow
Hope in a Time of Fear

Even in a seemingly lost cause, one person may unknowingly inspire another.
Paul Rogat Loeb
The Bush Crusade

Sacred violence, again unleashed in 2001, could prove as destructive as in 1096.
James Carroll
Rust & Rage in the Heartland

Three years after 9/11.
Dale Maharidge

Editorial

Political Alternatives

OK, I tried to watch the Republican convention on TV–I really did–but the early rounds of the US Open were playing seductively on ESPN.
William Greider
Will Labor Come Back?

Labor Day has never been a very inspiring holiday, established as it was by late-nineteenth-century union bosses as a homegrown alternative to May Day, which was viewed as having uncomfortably le
Liza Featherstone
Poverty in the Suburbs

Hidden in a Census Bureau report on poverty released in late August is a factoid with significant political and social consequences. Poverty has moved to the suburbs.
Peter Dreier
Gay GOPers Crash Party

Being a gay or lesbian Republican isn’t easy. Social conservatives condemn your “homosexual lifestyle,” while your friends (and lovers) on the left see you as part of the antigay problem.
Christopher Lisotta
Defying Convention

This article draws on reporting by Eyal Press, Esther Kaplan and Katha Pollitt.
Liza Featherstone
The GOP Hijacks 9/11

More than a thousand days have passed since September 11, 2001, yet the wounds are still raw.
The Editors
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2004: GOP Convention’s Looney Tunes

Good sizzle can always sell a lousy steak.
Robert Scheer
‘We Lie. We Decide.’

TIM RUSSERT: But, Senator, when you testified before the Senate, you talked about some of the hearings you had observed at the Winter Soldiers meeting, and you said that peop
Eric Alterman
Economic Bad Boys

When the “scrawny boy from Austria” delivered his peroration against faint-hearted “economic girlie men,” it was an unusually seductive, even witty, appeal to a notion of free enterprise that is
Patricia J. Williams
A Suggestion as America Begins Preparations for The Next Olympics

We might provoke less violent demonstrations
If we invaded slightly fewer nations.

Calvin Trillin

Books & the Arts

The Burden of Memory

Perhaps you noticed them in the main square of your town this year–or last year, or any year you’ve been alive, in any town where you’ve ever lived: a group of people solemnly assembled, a pries
Meline Toumani
At the Border

At the border between the past and the future
No sign on a post warns that your passport
Won’t let you return to your native land
As a citizen, just as a tourist
Carl Dennis
The Poverty of Theory

Gertrude Himmelfarb is a remarkable woman. Remarkable, first, because in some respects she is a pioneer.
Linda Colley
Totem and Taboo

It did not take long for a term that not long ago was slanderous to become a cliché.
Ronald Steel
The Bush Crusade

Sacred violence, again unleashed in 2001, could prove as destructive as in 1096.
James Carroll
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September 20, 2004 Issue

Feature

A bipartisan dialogue in this election year? In New York City? During the Republican convention?! We always knew those folks at The New School were a little nutty.

A once-sleepy population of artists and their fans has emerged as a loud and active proponent of political change.

The metaphor is deliberate; life is a gamble. Not to play is to foreclose any chance of winning.

This article was adapted from The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen’s Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear (Basic Books, www.theimpossible.org).

This article was adapted from The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen’s Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear (Basic Books, www.theimpossible.org).

Adapted from Everything We Love Can Be Saved, copyright 1997 by Alice Walker. Used by permission of Random House, Inc.

Part of this essay appeared in From the Ashes: A Spiritual Response to the Attack on America, by the editors of Beliefnet (Rodale).

Even in a seemingly lost cause, one person may unknowingly inspire another.

Sacred violence, again unleashed in 2001, could prove as destructive as in 1096.

Three years after 9/11.

Editorial

OK, I tried to watch the Republican convention on TV–I really did–but the early rounds of the US Open were playing seductively on ESPN.

Labor Day has never been a very inspiring holiday, established as it was by late-nineteenth-century union bosses as a homegrown alternative to May Day, which was viewed as having uncomfortably le

Hidden in a Census Bureau report on poverty released in late August is a factoid with significant political and social consequences. Poverty has moved to the suburbs.

Being a gay or lesbian Republican isn’t easy. Social conservatives condemn your “homosexual lifestyle,” while your friends (and lovers) on the left see you as part of the antigay problem.

This article draws on reporting by Eyal Press, Esther Kaplan and Katha Pollitt.

More than a thousand days have passed since September 11, 2001, yet the wounds are still raw.

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Column

Good sizzle can always sell a lousy steak.

TIM RUSSERT: But, Senator, when you testified before the Senate, you talked about some of the hearings you had observed at the Winter Soldiers meeting, and you said that peop

When the “scrawny boy from Austria” delivered his peroration against faint-hearted “economic girlie men,” it was an unusually seductive, even witty, appeal to a notion of free enterprise that is

We might provoke less violent demonstrations If we invaded slightly fewer nations.

Books & the Arts

Perhaps you noticed them in the main square of your town this year–or last year, or any year you’ve been alive, in any town where you’ve ever lived: a group of people solemnly assembled, a pries

At the border between the past and the future No sign on a post warns that your passport Won’t let you return to your native land As a citizen, just as a tourist

Gertrude Himmelfarb is a remarkable woman. Remarkable, first, because in some respects she is a pioneer.

It did not take long for a term that not long ago was slanderous to become a cliché.

Sacred violence, again unleashed in 2001, could prove as destructive as in 1096.

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

Letters

SIZE DOESN’T MATTER… Washington, DC

We might provoke less violent demonstrations
If we invaded slightly fewer nations.

At the border between the past and the future
No sign on a post warns that your passport
Won’t let you return to your native land
As a citizen, just as a tourist

SIZE DOESN’T MATTER…

Washington, DC